Daniel Polansky's Reviews > Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters

A narrative history of the first rifled units in the English army and their various battles against Napoleon. In retrospect I can see my erstwhile passion for military history as a late adolescent attempt to confirm a masculinity in which I so obviously lacked confidence (this was also why I liked Norman Mailer), and digging through boxes through earlier this month I was kind of going 'three books about the Boer war? Really?' But this one is actually a lot of fun, engaging popular history which I cribbed from for my first trilogy.