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Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier : By a Sergeant in the Ninety-Fourth Scots Brigade (The Spellmount Library of Military History)
Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier By a Sergeant in the NinetyFourth Scots Brigade - The Spellmount Library of Military History Author:Ian Fletcher, Joseph Donaldson When 16 year old Joseph Donaldson announced to his parents in 1809 that he had joined the army, they were understandably horrified, given the bleak and uncertain prospects facing a soldier at the time. Fortunately for his parents, and for us, Donaldson returned safe and sound from the Napoleonic Wars and soon put pen to paper to record his ... more »glorious (and not-so-glorious) adventures. His wonderfully graphic, gripping and often poignant memoir is completely reproduced in this volume for the first time since 1852.« less