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Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters
by Urban, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge wear.
- ISBN 10
- 0802714374
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714374
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Walker & Company, 2004. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge wear.. xiv, 351 p. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A nineteenth-century Band of Brothers The 95th Rifles was one of history's great fighting units, and Mark Urban brings them and the Napoleonic War gloriously to life in this unique chronicle. Focusing especially on six soldiers in the first battalion, Urban tells the Rifles' story from May 25, 1809, when they shipped out to join Wellington's army in Spain, through the battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other personal accounts, Urban has fashioned a vivid narrative that allows readers to feel the thrill and horror of famous battles, the hardship of the march across Europe, the bravery and camaraderie of a nineteenthcentury Band of Brothers whose innovative tactics created the modern notion of infantryman.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61922
- Title
- Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters
- Author
- Urban, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge wear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0802714374
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714374
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Joseph Almond, Badajoz, von Alten, Andrew Barnard, Sidney Beckwith, Busaco, Alexander Cameron, Edward Costello, Craufurd, William Erskine, Jonathan Leach, Robert Fairfoot, John Kincaid, Peter O'Hare, Sabugal, George Simmons, Harry Smith, Soult, Talav
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