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Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes (Paperback, 2002)

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Title: Redcoat. ‘Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of history – but one of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.'. BERNARD CORNWELL. Format: Paperback. Item Width: 32mm. Item Length: 129mm.

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Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. 'Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of history - but one of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.' BERNARD CORNWELL Redcoat is the story of the British soldier from c.1760 until c.1860 - surely one of the most enduring and magnetic subjects of the British past. Solidly based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them, the book is rich in the history of the period. It charts Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, the American War of Independence, the Duke of York's campaign in Flanders, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo,the retreat from Kabul, the Sikh wars in 1845-9, the Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny.The focus of Redcoat, however, is the individual recollection and experience of the ordinary soldiers serving in the wars fought by Georgian and early Victorian England.Through their stories and anecdotes - of uniforms, equipment,'taking the King's shilling', flogging, wounds, food, barrack life, courage, comradeship, death, love and loss - Richard Holmes provides a comprehensive portrait of a fallible but extraordinarily successful fighting force. 'Such a scene of mortal strife from the fire of fifty men was never witnessed...' writes Harry Smith of the 95th Rifles, recounting the death of a brother officer in Spain in 1813. 'I wept over his remains with a bursting heart as, with his company who adored him, I consigned to the grave the last external appearance of Daniel Cadoux. His fame can never die.' Smith's account is typical of the emotions and experiences of the men who appear on every page of this book, sporting their red uniforms to fight for King and country.

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Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780006531524
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Richard Holmes
Publication Name
Redcoat: the British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
350g

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Richard Holmes
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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item 1 Redcoat The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, Holmes, Richard, Use
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by stellerseaeagle15 Mar, 2018
Fairly good read....but
Book does give a lot of good info. Well, maybe too much. Goes on and on about the minutiae of the administration and structure of the Redcoats' British army. Had some good and interesting parts but sometimes you have to wade through pages of British army trivia. Good read but not great.
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