In the Service of the King: The Letters of William Thornton Keep at Home, Walcheren, and in the Peninsula, 1808-1814

Keep, William Thornton (edited by Ian Fletcher)

ISBN 10: 1873376790 / ISBN 13: 9781873376799

Published by Spellmount Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 1997

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hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket, the text is clean and unmarked, b&w plates, 214pp.

Seller Inventory # 265378

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Service of the King: The Letters of William Thornton Keep at Home, Walcheren, and in the Peninsula, 1808-1814
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873376790
• ISBN 13: 9781873376799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Militaria

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Synopsis

These are the previously unpublished letters of William Thornton Keep who served with the 77th Regiment at Walcheren and the 28th Regiment in the Peninsula, including graphic accounts of the battle of Maya and St. Pierre where the author was wounded by a ball that entered his mouth, broke his jaw, and lodged in his neck. William Thornton Keep lived to be 92 years old.