Fighting Napoleon: The Recollections of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns

"These lively and entertaining memoirs provide an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington's better-known operations in the Iberian Peninsula" (Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series).

It is often forgotten that Britain's struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and the extensive operations of the Royal Navy and the British Army in the Mediterranean were key battlegrounds in this prolonged war of attrition. Even when Napoleon considered himself the master of Europ...