The Wheatley Diary: A Journal and Sketch-Book Kept During the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign - Softcover

Wheatley, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900624060 ISBN 13: 9781900624060

Publisher: Windrush Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The journal and sketchbook of a young English officer in the King's German Legion. This work offers a firsthand account of the war against Napoleon in the form of a diary kept on active service in the field, from San Sebastien to Waterloo. The journal was for a young girl, Eliza Brookes.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley and Oxford. He served as an infantry officer during the war, was twice wounded and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. Described by Professor J.H. Plumb as 'a writer of the hishest ability', he is, in the words of The Times Educational Supplement. 'perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have.' He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Hon. D. Litt of Leicester University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Windrush Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1900624060
• ISBN 13: 9781900624060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 97
• Editor: Hibbert Christopher