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Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, by Captain Sir John Kincaid.
I've been meaning to read it for a couple of years (rather than just scanning my library copy for relevant terms in the index). So when I saw it in bookstore at 30% off sale price, I snapped it up.
I 'made' myself start reading it, with the thought that it wold be a valuable thing to do, and would help me 'read into' this period of warfare. What i didn't expect was for it to be such fun!
If you like the adventures of Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell, then you'd love Kincaid's recollections. He enlisted in the 95th (Rifles) in 1808 and fought in the Penninsular War. He was basically a real life Sharpe.
Funny and poignant by turns it reads wonderfully well. Sometimes the archaic language patterns seem to drop away and there is something very real and now about his words
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