. A military career to rival those of Marlborough and Wellington Military service over an unprecedented fifty-five years took Field Marshal Colin Campbell from the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula to the plains of India, via the West Indies, Nova Scotia, China, Java, the Balkans and Russia.
Wounded six times
the first time at 20, the last when 65
he always led from the front, ever ready to ride the whirlwind and direct the storm. There wasn’t a great power which he did not stand beside as an ally, or confront as a foe. He was in command at the most decorated battle in British history, and it was he who reconquered a subcontinent with an army Wellington would have thought sufficient for a reconnaissance-in-force. But Campbell’s story is also a very personal one, the struggle of the son of a Glaswegian cabinetmaker who climbed all the way to the House of Lords. This Scottish statesman deserves to never be forgotten. AUTHOR: Adrian Greenwood read PPE at Oxford and then gained an MBA at Imperial College, London. A dealer in rare books, he has written many articles for antique magazines. Adrian has been researching the extraordinary life of Campbell for many years.
Philip Haythornthwaite is an internationally renowned military historian with a particular expertise in the Napoleonic Wars. He is the author of over 40 books. He has authenticated this book at every stage of its production. SELLING POINTS: . Campbell’s experience of battle beggars belief, from fighting with Wellington at the age of 16, he took part in every major campaign of Victoria’s reign . The first full-length appraisal of this extraordinary Scottish warrior since 1881 . Based upon primary sources, the first examination of Campbell’s personality and motivations, alongside analysis of his military actions
32pp colour and 40 b/w