by Richard Holmes · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435026550
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«Casacas rojas» is the historical essay by Richard Holmes, published by Edhasa in hardcover (720 pages, in Spanish).
Richard Holmes portrays the redcoats, infantry of the British Empire, and their actions in the Peninsular War, the Napoleonic Wars, Crimea or India. Using letters, diaries and memoirs of officers, soldiers and women who accompanied the troops, he shows their daily life, uniforms and weapons, far from literary heroism.
Translation from English by Montse Batista. Spanish edition of December 2004 in the Ensayo histórico collection. Original title: Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket.
For fans of military history and the Napoleonic period seeking a close-up view of the soldiers of the British Empire.
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
