Napoleonic Newsdesk
Book News from Greenhill
by Paul Chamberlain
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October sees the publication of Voices from the Peninsula: Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington’s Army, 1808-1814, edited by Ian Fletcher, price £19.95 hardback. Drawing on rare letters, diaries and memoirs, Ian Fletcher presents a superb insight into the daily lives of British soldiers during this period and evokes such key battles and sieges as Vimeiro, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and San Sebastian. This new book will throw new light on the experience of Napoleonic warfare and brings to life what Wellington called ‘the finest military machine in existence’. More Napoelonic Newsdesk
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