Ebook: Rifles: six years with Wellington's legendary sharpshooters
Author: Urban Mark
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Military, HISTORY--Military--World War I, Krijgshandelingen, Military campaigns, Military Life & Institutions, Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815--Campaigns, Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815--Regimental histories, Regimental histories, Regimenten, History, Great Britain. -- Army. -- Rifle Brigade 95th -- History, Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815 -- Campaigns, Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815 -- Regimental histories, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Military, HISTORY -- Military -- World War I, Great Britain. --
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- City: London
- Language: English
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Review
'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail 'A brilliant warts-and-all depiction of Wellington's famous riflemen.' Daily Telegraph
Product Description
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.