The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.

"A fine piece of analysis that can be recommended to all students of the period." - J. A. Houlding, Army Historical Research

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Catriona Kennedy is Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at the University of York, UK. Her publications include, as co-editor with Matthew McCormack, Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Narrating War 2. Becoming Soldiers and Sailors 3. Combat and Campaign 4. Travellers in Uniform 5. Prisoners of War 6. Citizen-Soldiers 7. Bringing the War Back Home Conclusion: A Waterloo Panorama ?