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A boy in the Peninsular War /
The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. It's author, Robert Blakeney, enlist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Uckfield, East Sussex :
The Naval & Military Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. It's author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an Irish boy at the tender age of fifteen. As such, he was in at the beginning of the long war in the Iberian peninsular, and stuck through to the end, witness ... |
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| Notas: | "Reproduced by kind permission of the Central Library, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst." Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781781499757 1781499756 |