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Bernard Wilkin
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The British army during the Napoleonic Wars is often studied using English sources and the British view of their French opponents has been covered in exhaustive detail. However, the French view of the British has been less often studied and is frequently misunderstood. This book, based on hundreds of letters, memoirs, and reports of French officers and soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, adds to the existing literature by exploring the British army...
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True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonaparte and the First French Empire.
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers' memoirs. Fighting for Napoleon: French Soldiers' Letters, 1799–1815, based on more than sixteen hundred letters written by French soldiers of the Napoleonic...
