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Ian Fletcher is one of the leading
authorities on the Peninsular War and
Wellington’s army. Born in London in
1957, his first book, In Hell Before
Daylight, was published in 1984, since
when he has written or edited twenty-three
others, details of which can be found
listed elsewhere on
this website. Ian first visited the battlefield
of Waterloo in 1978 and traveled to the
Iberian Peninsula for the first time in
1983. Since then he has visited the
battlefields regularly and can recall at least thirty
visits to Salamanca alone,
for example, whilst the Pyrenees and
southern France areas have become almost a
second home, to which his long-suffering
family will testify. The Crimea, too, has
become a home from home in recent years.
Whilst Ian considers the battlefields
themselves to be the focal point of every
tour, he still maintains a great interest
in the social aspects of Wellington’s
army, the troops, their gypsy
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their food and supplies, the military
system, the topography, the arms and
equipment and various other aspects.
Whilst the touring side of operations
takes up a large slice of his time, Ian
still manages to continue writing, as well
as work on other projects. He worked on
the BBC’s Decisive Weapons series, The
History Channel’s Line of Fire
and Sharpe's War series and Channel
4's series on Revolutionary Armies. He has
also appeared on Russian and Ukrainian
television as part of an award-winning
4-part documentary series on the Crimean
War. He has also broadcast on radio and
continues to lecture whenever he can. He
is a Fellow of the International
Napoleonic Society. Far more important (!) he
is a lifelong supporter of Tottenham
Hotspur Football Club, having attended his
first match in 1964 at the age of seven
and when in England
can regularly be found
in the Paxton Road end
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