The Spectator, October 18th, 2003
A regiment to reckon with RIFLES: SIX YEARS WITH WELLINGTON'S LEGENDARY SHARPSHOOTERS by Mark Urban Faker, L20, pp. 351, ISBN 0571216803
In the spring of 1990, at the age of 21, I found myself sitting on an English hillside in the sun as one member of a brand-new training platoon of British squaddies. Having been marched up hill and down dale for a couple of hours that afternoon, we were handed large cans of beer by the corporals and told to stand up one by one - in front of the platoon, its NCOs, and its lieutenant - to explain what motivated us to join the Light Division. As a university-ed...
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