“Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly
to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military
history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a
gallant soldier and gentleman.”--_The Standard._
“It will be long invaluable as a record of the heroism, the occasional,
though exceptional, excesses, and the wondrous endurance of the British
soldier.”--_Daily Chronicle._
“This book is certainly one that all riflemen will value, and which
all who are interested in the Peninsular War will enjoy.... The author
belonged to a regiment that saw more fighting than any other in the
Peninsula, and certainly Major Simmons was a remarkable man.”--_The
Army and Navy Gazette._
“The journals and letters which make up this volume are welcome as
contributing contemporary records made by an observant man taking part
in world-moulding struggles.”--_Glasgow Herald._
“It is a far cry now to the Peninsular War, and yet seldom have we
read a more realistic picture of certain phases of that historic
struggle.”--_Speaker._
“It is difficult to conceive any officer other than a staff officer
who was likely to have seen more of the fighting in Spain, Portugal,
and Southern France than an officer of the old 95th, the nucleus
of the famous ‘Light Division,’ so long and so well commanded by
Craufurd.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
“A very strikingly human document.”--_Academy._
“A book which should be in the library of every soldier, but which
is, at the same time, of extreme interest to the civilian. Duty rings
through the pages of what is from first to last a noble and inspiring
book, the record of a noble character.”--_Daily Mail._