Recollections Of The Eventful Life Of A Soldier. Including The War in the Peninsula and Scenes and Sketches in Ireland by Joseph Donaldson Sergeant in the Ninety-Fourth Scots Brigade. Introduction by Ian Fletcher. The Spellmount Library of Military History.

DONALDSON, JOSEPH:

Published by Spellmount. 2000 1st thus.

About this Item

9.0 x 5.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Grey endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (d/w. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 375 pp. With b/w frontis. Originally published in 1852. Joseph Donaldson joined the army at age 16. These are the three books he wrote of his time in Portugal, Spain, and France including Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca. A fascinating firt hand account of life in the British Army in the early 19th century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recollections Of The Eventful Life Of A Soldier. Including The War in the Peninsula and Scenes and Sketches in Ireland by Joseph Donaldson Sergeant in the Ninety-Fourth Scots Brigade. Introduction by Ian Fletcher. The Spellmount Library of Military History.
• Publisher: Spellmount. 2000 1st thus.
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