DOUGLAS'S TALE OF THE PENINSULA AND WATERLOO

by Douglas, John. Edited by Stanley Monick

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Leo Cooper, London, 1997.. 133 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0850525659 Map endpapers, "Corporal (later Sergeant) John Douglas of the 'First Foot' (The Royal Scots) was a rare figure to be found in the ranks of Wellington's army - a fine fighting soldi. er but also a well-read, educated man with a natural gift as an author. In this memoir, which he was persuaded to write after leaving the army, he gives us a unique picture of an infantryman's life on campaign: the trials and tribulations and bi. t t e r hardship of endless marching, often desperate with hunger or barefoot for lack of new boots; the harrowing experience of a major pitched battle; the horrors of siege warfare; the lighter side of the soldier's life, related with that wonderfu. l se ns e of irony which is so characteristic of the veteran British soldier and that marvellous sense of fun without which such a life could not have been endured; outbursts of bitterness against an ungrateful nation for which he and his comrades g. av e s o m uch and yet which seemed to care so little for its soldiers' suffering or eventual well-being after their service was over, often leaving them sick or maimed, or both. What is so special about 'Douglas's Tale' is that the reader sees his. tor y th roug h the eyes of a man in the ranks, sharing with him the terrors and pride of victory in a number of the great battles of our history and seeing them as he saw them and not as described in detail by the historian. Douglas was a man of d. eep under stand ing and humanity, possessed of a strong, simple faith, evidenced time and again by his sympathy for the sufferings of the civil population from the ravages of war." Dust jacket has very light rubbing - mainly on rear panel. F/NF.

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