WELLINGTON'S ARMY 1809-1814

<p>This book gives an unparalleled insight into the organisation day-to-day life and psychology of Wellington’s army focusing on the characters that Wellington believed could ‘go anywhere and do anything’. Wellington’s Army examines both the leaders and the led; the daily life manners and customs of the Peninsular Army are explored drawing on despatches general orders and records of court martial and to a greater extent non-official information such as diaries memoirs and letters.<br />A great deal of literature was produced during this period written by both commissioned and non-commissioned soldiers. For the soldiers the campaign became a battle against the Revolution a kind of crusade and an attempt to thwart the ‘triple-headed monster of Republicanism Atheism and Sedition’. The soldiers of Wellington’s army were fighting for all that made life worth living – religion morality constitution laws and liberty.</p>