- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Shinglepicker Publications (1 April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0952278219
- ISBN-13: 978-0952278214
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,325,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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48 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent book one of the best of this type of collections from eye witnesses. Easy to read and colourful a great help in bringing this period of history to life with good illustrations a must for anyone interested in this period or a fan of the Sharpe series who wants to get an insight into the real Riflemen of the Napoleonic wars
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Although very informative, I was expecting more recollections of actual battles and was dissapointed that most of the book deals with the living conditions and daily life as a rifleman. Having said that, it gives a good insight into the daily trials and tribulations that a soldier had to put up with during this period.
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Must Read for Napoleonic Fans
12 Sep 2006
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This is a unique book. It is one of the few memoirs of a line infantryman from the Napoleonic Wars. It is all the more interesting in that it is a soldier of the famous 95th Rifles. The original version was a stream of conciousness tome dictated by Rifleman Harris some years after the war. In was not in chronological order and could be quite confusing to all but the most informed student of the war. Eileen Hathaway has done two marvelous things in this version that make it much more accessible. First she has sorted out the original narrative of Rifleman Harris in chronological order with very brief explanations of the context in which they were written. (With one chapter of all the bits even she could not figure out when they happended.) Secondly, she has incorporated extracts from other memoirs of the time that bear on the same events that Rifleman Harris is describing. This also helps to give context. Rifleman at the time often had little or no understanding of the larger context. Not only did they suffer the same lack of view of the entire battlefield as any infantryman, but the nature of how riflemen were employed lead to them generally seeing an even more restricted portion of the battle. Hence Eilens narrative and the related memoir extracts puts everything in a perspective.
All ain all a great read and a perspective hard to come by elsewhere on Napoleonic service.
All ain all a great read and a perspective hard to come by elsewhere on Napoleonic service.
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