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Rifles
eBook - Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
ISBN/EAN: 9780571246915
Umbreit-Nr.: 3777137
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 368 S., 3.62 MB
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Erschienen am 04.09.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- 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 and thieving 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.In an exhilarating work of narrative military history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th Rifles, the toughest and deadliest sharpshooters of Wellington's Army.'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail'Urban writes history the way it should be written, alive and exciting.' Andy McNab
- Autorenportrait
- Mark Urban is the Diplomatic Editor of the BBC'sNewsnight and was formerly Defence Correspondent for theIndependent. He is the author of several books, includingBig Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA,The Men Who Broke Napoleon's Codes andRifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters.HisGenerals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World was described by Tim Collins as'entertaining, informative and insightful', and by Allan Mallinson as'one of the most intelligent books on the British Army I have ever read'.Fusiliers: How the British Army Lost America But Learned to Fight was described by Simon Sebag Montefiore as'a vivid, gritty, poignant and well-researched charge-by-charge, barrage-by-barrage march of one regiment of Redcoats through the battles of the American War of Independence.'