The Very Thing : THE MEMOIRS OF DRUMMER BENTINCK, ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS, 1807-1823 / JONATHAN CROOK ; foreword by DONALD E. GRAVES
2011, First Edition. London : Frontline Books. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #478759
Physical description: xiii, 193 pages : illustrations, maps. Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Foreword by Donald E. Graves; Introduction; Chapter One Early Life and Joining the Army; Chapter Two The Copenhagen Expedition; Chapter Three North America and Martinique; Chapter Four Deployment to the Peninsula; Chapter Five Battle of Albuera; Chapter Six Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz; Chapter Seven Salamanca and the Offensive of 1813; Chapter Eight Vitoria, the Pyrenees and Sorauren; Chapter Nine Battles on the Road to Toulouse; Chapter Ten Peace and Waterloo; Chapter Eleven Final Combats and Peacetime in France. Chapter Twelve Leaving the Army and Civilian LifeChronology 1st Battalion, 23rd Foot, 1807-1823; Bibliography; Index. Subjects: Bentinck, Richard 1789-1874. Great Britain. Army. Royal Welch Fusiliers. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 ; Personal narratives, British. Soldiers Great Britain ; Biography. Great Britain History, Military 1789-1820.
Price: €14.95