THE MEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION: Unpublished Memoirs from the 43rd Light Infantry in the Peninsular War

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Memoirs from members of Wellington's Light Division, many for the first time and many accounts that were produced within hours, or at most days, after the incidents they describe. These often portray a very different view of many famous events and cause us to question numerous claims made in those later published memoirs.

Never intended to be published, the memoirs in this book were written only for the men themselves and their families, being penned without the dreaded influence of 'hindsight' to alter and temper their views. Consequently, they provide brutally honest assessments of their senior officers, how operations were handled and who made mistakes that have subsequently been quietly covered over.