Fosten, Bryan, — WELLINGTON'S INFANTRY (2).
Osprey, London, 1985, reprint, paperback, 40pp, 8pp coloured ills., half tone ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, No. 119 in the Men-at-Arms series, a description and brief history of a number of Light Infantry corps and regiments were formed in the British Army towards the end of the 19th century, based in part on the experience of skirmishing in the American War of Independence, including the Rifle Corps, Highland Regiments and other units, with written details of the distinctive jacket colours and facings, shako plates, musket patterns, and coloured ills. of officers and men of units of the period, a little rubbed top cnr. and lightly rubbed at exterms., small label top cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,
