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Originally published in 1821, this book vividly describes scenes of war with all its maddening excitement and all its horrors, as experienced by an anonymous Private who served in the 42nd Highlanders for 12 years during the latter part of the Peninsula War. Inspired by the narrative of an earlier published military diary entitled The Journal of a Solider of the 71st (1819), and having known our anonymous 42nd Soldier since childhood, the (likewise...
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What would happen if a man went undercover into enemy territory during World War One? One man ventured to find out. The book's unnamed narrator, a Daily Mail journalist, begins his journey posing as a steel worker in Essen, before being 'dismissed with ignominy' and moving on to Constantinople. The journalist, who at the beginning of the book, proclaims 'I am not a spy', undertakes a covert journey through the Balkans, Turkey and Asia Minor, detailing...
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In this anonymously published memoir, the experiences of a "light-bob", or light infantryman, are recounted in a readable and exciting account. The Author reveals himself to be a proud Irishman who joined the 43rd in time to join the expedition to Denmark, before embarking on more serious skirmishing and heavy fighting in the Peninsular. First during Sir John Moore's retreat to Coruña and then as part of the famed Light Division under General Craufurd....
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During the Napoleonic Wars, many elite units served their respective masters. However, few had such an enduring yet brief history as the King's German Legion. Recruited predominantly from Hanover, which had been invaded by the French in 1803, the men of the Legion would face many tough adventures all over Europe before returning to their homeland again. In this anonymously published memoir, the author recounts his adventures on land and sea, fighting...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. This account of the 1815 Belgium campaign, during the Hundred Days, is famous for its frequent quotation in nearly every study of that campaign. Written by an eye-witness to the battle of Waterloo and its aftermath, the pictures drawn by the writer are graphic of the violence of the battle and...
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