Description: Further DetailsTitle: Napoleon's Peninsular WarCondition: NewEAN: 9781526754097ISBN: 9781526754097Publisher: Frontline BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/27/2020Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Paul L DawsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808-1809Description: Memoirs of British soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War are commonplace and histories of the momentous campaigns and battles of Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, can be numbered by the score. Yet surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French.Using previously unseen material from the French army archives in Paris, which includes numerous memoires that have not even been published in France, renowned historian Paul Dawson tells the story of the early years of the Peninsular War as never before.Eyewitness accounts of the horrific Siege of Zaragoza, in which more than 50,000 soldiers and civilians were killed defending the city, and of the cataclysmic Spanish defeats at Medellin and Ocana are interspersed with details of campaign life in the Iberian Peninsula and of struggling through the Galician mountains in pursuit of the British army marching to Corunna.As well as the drama of the great battles and the ever-present fear of Spanish guerrillas - the knife in the back, the flash of steel in the dark - Paul Dawson draws on the writings of the French soldiers to examine the ordinary conscript's belief in the war they were fighting for their Emperor, Napoleon.In this much-needed study of the Peninsular War from the French perspective, Paul Dawson has produced an unprecedented, yet vital addition to our understanding of the war in Iberia. _Napoleon's Peninsular War_ is destined to become one of the classic accounts of this turbulent, yet endlessly fascinating era.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Military HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Napoleon's Peninsular War
Title: Napoleon's Peninsular War
EAN: 9781526754097
ISBN: 9781526754097
Release Date: 10/27/2020
Release Year: 2020
Item Height: 234mm
Subtitle: The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Napoleon's Peninsular War : The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808-1809
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Military / Napoleonic Wars, Europe / France, Modern / 19th Century, Military
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Paul L. Dawson
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover