Full name: Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters

Author: Mark Urban Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780571216819 0571216811

As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman. In an exhilarating work of narrative military history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th Rifles, the toughest and deadliest sharpshooters of Wellington's Army. 'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail 'Urban writes history the way it should be written, alive and exciting.' Andy McNab Similar books: Fusiliers by Mark Urban The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther E. Rothenberg Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes by Mark Urban Military Blunders by Saul David The Savage Wars Of Peace by Max Boot The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson Mr. Kipling's Army by Byron Farwell Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson The Mask of Command by John Keegan Redcoat by Richard Holmes The Battle by Alessandro Barbero 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides