Description

The Campaigns Of Wellington

Three volumes, edited and introduced by Ian Fletcher.
1. The Peninsular War 1808-1811.
2. The Peninsular War 1812-1814.
3. The Waterloo Campaign

Seven years after the Duke of Wellington had led his tiny army to a first tentative victory on the Iberian Peninsula, he wept as the army surgeon read the casualty lists in the aftermath of his greatest battle – Waterloo. Ian Fletcher has skilfully woven together over 700 extracts to tell the story of the intervening years: brilliant defensive battles, lightning forced marches, nightmare retreats and devastating bayonet charges. Between the warfare, both heroic and tragic, there is the everyday life of an army: the need to find fodder for the horses, the chaos of makeshift hospitals and camps and moments of calm or even luxury in an abandoned castle or convent. These three volumes reveal the human experiences and military realities of the campaigns that won glory for the British army and rewrote the map of Europe for a century.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2007
• Printed Cloth Hardback, 344pp, 358pp, 359pp
• Each with a frontispiece, colour illustrations, plus maps and battle-plans
• Size 260 x 160mm, 4kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copies

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