Evening Talk by Gareth Glover
at 6.30pm
In the Kincaid Gallery, The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum.
Over the last two centuries, a number of books have been published, which try to describe the life of a soldierin the Peninsular War; but they all suffer from one great flaw – the use of memoirs written by soldiers decades later; which brings the age old problem of hindsight very much to play, while they are also tainted by the change in social norms over the period. (more…)