Rifleman Dodd

Rifleman Dodd is a take hold that was addicted to me by my combat instructors during School of Infantry. I have intended to read the go for, unless lose it just before my comer to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. I lately found a copy of the earmark and decided to read it. The platter is approximately Pvt. Dodd, a British infantry rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars. During this time period rifles were a novelty and most of the army wore red-coats and carried muskets.The book is fairly short, hitherto its also rattling action packed. There is a chaw of brutality and death in the book, however that is part of what makes the book a in truth beloved reed it depicts war real realistically, and does not glorify it. nonpareil raise aspect I enjoyed ab forth this book is that it depicts all the same events twice, alternating points of compute between Dodd, and a group of cut soldiers led by sgt. Godinot, giving you more than whizz perspective on Dodds struggles.Its a remarkable t ale of survival and exclusive actions, of a regular rifleman who survives because of sheer finish and slowly learns to make plans without orders, and shows leadership qualities and a knowledge of warf are. Private Matthew Dodd is separated from his command during a retreat and finds himself stranded target enemy lines in Portugal. Dodd manages to survive passim the book on his willpower, determination, and also with the perfunctory aid of a group of Lusitanian guerilla fighters.Dodd harasses the French with his rifle eyepatch trying to prevent them from building a bridge across the Tagus River. The book depicts a war of attrition in which starving is the chief weapon. The two sides essential out last each other in order to achieve victory. Throughout the book Dodd kills all of Godinots men one by one during his struggle to survive and repay to his regiment. Godinot is not the only soldier who must pick himself up and move on after witnessing the death of his friends.The first base friend Dodd makes is a man who was slightly take out kilter and who follows him like a whelp dog. However payable to the exertion of a long march, freezing cold weather, organism wet, and starvation, he catches a fever and Dodd is oblige to make the decision to leave him in his delirium to die alone on a hillside. Later, an completed village of Portuguese guerilla fighters who join him are slaughtered by the French down to the last man, woman, and child. to boot his last two friends, including the one that was with him done most of the novel, are hanged before his eyes.Similarly, Godinot loses one soldier after another until his entire squad is killed. Ultimately proving that Dodd succeeds largely due to sheer will and determination. In destination I found the book rattling enjoyable and a very good read. This book is provides good examples of individual actions and vigorous thinking skills that are needed to smash in hard situations and desperation. I would r emember this book to other Lance Corporals because it has a lot of lessons regarding taking initiative and covering good judgment in the grammatical construction of adversity.Rifleman DoddRifleman Dodd is a fiction war boloney based during the peninsular war approximately 1810 and Published in 1932. The main acquaintance of this book is a rifleman that goes by the trope of Matthew Dodd. He served in the 95th Rifles for the slope underneath the command of Duke hessian. At the line of the book, A battle starts, and amidst the chaos Dodd becomes lost and separated behind French lines. The Duke of Wellington calls for a retreat, leaving Dodd to fend for himself. Dodd is a very tall, bulky rifleman. Dodd is a very inspirational and very courageous soldier. patronage beingness alone and surrounded, he boldnesss many another(prenominal) challenges, battles and skirmishes throughout this book. Due to the devastation of war, Dodd struggles with the day-by-day challenge of starvat ion, and lack of shelter practically being forced to freeze during wet nights.Another character in this book is serjeant-at-law Godinot, he is the main obstructer of the book. At the beginning battle, Dodd and Godinot are almost face to face during the battle, and Godinot and his squad are the ones who sideline Dodd away from the retreating position forces and into French territory. police sergeant Godinot and his squad were undisciplined and more freelance(a) like. Throughout this book Dodd ambushes Godinot and his squad eightfold times, and slowly picks them off one by one and disappear into the countryside.The vast legal age of this books plot is spent following each Dodd, or Godinot. Each character is portrayed as a protagonist, or antagonist depending on which of the two is being followed. Whenever Dodd is being followed, the story tells of the struggle that he is stuck dismissal through, having to starve and only having a cookie and jerky in his rucksack or having t o march on while his boots are completely destroyed and he is stuck travel barefoot.When the story follows Godinot and his squad, they are always on the tail of Dodd, or ambushed by him. When it first starts off his squad is very tidal bore to hunt him down, but later in the book. Everywhere they go Dodd winds up ambushing and cleansing a few of them. As a result Godinot is on a kin feud to find and kill this English Ghost that hasbeen haunting them.As Dodd travels through the occupied Portuguese country, he meets members of the Portuguese rebels. One of his first encounters is a young Portuguese soldier, who speaks English. As a result Dodd decides to follow him around as a translator, and navigator through Portugal to English lines.