Description
Product ID: | 9781474626385 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | MILITARY MEMOIRS |
Title: | The Letters of Private Wheeler |
Subtitle: | An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo |
Authors: | Author: B.H. Liddell Hart |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Diaries, letters and journals, True war and combat stories, Specific wars and campaigns, Diaries, letters & journals, True war & combat stories, Napoleonic Wars |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The first-hand account of a Private in Wellington's Army - vividly portrayed through his own letters. 'Simply marvellous' TES ''In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military history''s great originals'' John Keegan, DAILY TELEGRAPH |
Imprint Name: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-07-28 |