The Letters of Private Wheeler

An Eyewitness in Action at the Battle of Waterloo

The Letters of Private Wheeler
B H Liddell Hart
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h196 x 130mm - 288pg
28 Jul 2022 UK
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9781474626385
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' In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent . . . We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen . . . One of military history' s great originals' John Keegan, DAILY TELEGRAPHThese letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington' s army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler' s record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called ' an old bloated poltroon' ) and his later posting to Corfu. Most of all, Wheeler' s account of the historic Battle of Waterloo - written before the muskets of battle had cooled - reveals him to be a master of lively anecdote and mischievous characterisation.
They are simply marvellous. Wheeler was a naive writer of real power - a natural story-teller, a provider of portraits, someone whose gift was to bring everything he wrote about to life * TES * In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent . . . We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen . . . One of military history' s great originals -- John Keegan * DAILY TELEGRAPH * These letters have already become a minor classic . . . deftly edited, they are clear and telling in the accounts they give of a soldier' s day-to-day life, a mixture of danger, boredom, discomfort and occasional delight * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
Private William Wheeler was a soldier in the King' s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He served from 1809 until he was invalided out in 1828, then a sergeant. Living on his army pension, he turned his letters home into a journal, which was preserved by the family down the generations, until, in 1948, a visitor to the house saw it and thought it should be published. B H Liddell Hart was a British soldier, strategist and military historian. He wrote a series of acclaimed military history books including A HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, A HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781474626385
Published: 28 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288

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