Square Crown 8vo, containing Three Sketch Maps.Price 10s. 6d.Printed on Light Paper with Deckled Edges.A BRITISH RIFLE MANReduced facsimile of cover design.THE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MAJOR GEORGE SIMMONS, RIFLE BRIGADE, DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO.PRESS OPINIONS.“Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a gallant soldier and gentleman.”—The Standard.“It will be long invaluable as a record of the heroism, the occasional, though exceptional, excesses, and the wondrous endurance of the British soldier.”—Daily Chronicle.“This book is certainly one that all riflemen will value, and which all who are interested in the Peninsular War will enjoy.... The author belonged to a regiment that saw more fighting than any other in the Peninsula, and certainly Major Simmons was a remarkable man.”—The Army and Navy Gazette.“The journals and letters which make up this volume are welcome as contributing contemporary records made by an observant man taking part in world-moulding struggles.”—Glasgow Herald.“It is a far cry now to the Peninsular War, and yet seldom have we read a more realistic picture of certain phases of that historic struggle.”—Speaker.“It is difficult to conceive any officer other than a staff officer who was likely to have seen more of the fighting in Spain, Portugal, and Southern France than an officer of the old 95th, the nucleus of the famous ‘Light Division,’ so long and so well commanded by Craufurd.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“A very strikingly human document.”—Academy.“A book which should be in the library of every soldier, but which is, at the same time, of extreme interest to the civilian. Duty rings through the pages of what is from first to last a noble and inspiring book, the record of a noble character.”—Daily Mail.A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.
Square Crown 8vo, containing Three Sketch Maps.Price 10s. 6d.Printed on Light Paper with Deckled Edges.
A BRITISH RIFLE MAN
Reduced facsimile of cover design.
Reduced facsimile of cover design.
THE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MAJOR GEORGE SIMMONS, RIFLE BRIGADE, DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO.
PRESS OPINIONS.
“Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a gallant soldier and gentleman.”—The Standard.“It will be long invaluable as a record of the heroism, the occasional, though exceptional, excesses, and the wondrous endurance of the British soldier.”—Daily Chronicle.“This book is certainly one that all riflemen will value, and which all who are interested in the Peninsular War will enjoy.... The author belonged to a regiment that saw more fighting than any other in the Peninsula, and certainly Major Simmons was a remarkable man.”—The Army and Navy Gazette.“The journals and letters which make up this volume are welcome as contributing contemporary records made by an observant man taking part in world-moulding struggles.”—Glasgow Herald.“It is a far cry now to the Peninsular War, and yet seldom have we read a more realistic picture of certain phases of that historic struggle.”—Speaker.“It is difficult to conceive any officer other than a staff officer who was likely to have seen more of the fighting in Spain, Portugal, and Southern France than an officer of the old 95th, the nucleus of the famous ‘Light Division,’ so long and so well commanded by Craufurd.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“A very strikingly human document.”—Academy.“A book which should be in the library of every soldier, but which is, at the same time, of extreme interest to the civilian. Duty rings through the pages of what is from first to last a noble and inspiring book, the record of a noble character.”—Daily Mail.
“Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a gallant soldier and gentleman.”—The Standard.
“It will be long invaluable as a record of the heroism, the occasional, though exceptional, excesses, and the wondrous endurance of the British soldier.”—Daily Chronicle.
“This book is certainly one that all riflemen will value, and which all who are interested in the Peninsular War will enjoy.... The author belonged to a regiment that saw more fighting than any other in the Peninsula, and certainly Major Simmons was a remarkable man.”—The Army and Navy Gazette.
“The journals and letters which make up this volume are welcome as contributing contemporary records made by an observant man taking part in world-moulding struggles.”—Glasgow Herald.
“It is a far cry now to the Peninsular War, and yet seldom have we read a more realistic picture of certain phases of that historic struggle.”—Speaker.
“It is difficult to conceive any officer other than a staff officer who was likely to have seen more of the fighting in Spain, Portugal, and Southern France than an officer of the old 95th, the nucleus of the famous ‘Light Division,’ so long and so well commanded by Craufurd.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“A very strikingly human document.”—Academy.
“A book which should be in the library of every soldier, but which is, at the same time, of extreme interest to the civilian. Duty rings through the pages of what is from first to last a noble and inspiring book, the record of a noble character.”—Daily Mail.
A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.