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Author | : René North |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Europe / Napoleonic Wars / Peninsular campaign / Military forces / Uniforms |
ISBN | : 9780855240677 |
Download Soldiers of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Glover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
ISBN | : 9780141390413 |
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This volume provides a fascinating insight into what it was like to march and fight, to eat and be wounded, to command and be commanded at the start of the 19th century. Stress is laid on the technological limitations of warfare at that time.
Author | : Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1828 |
Genre | : Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
ISBN | : |
Download Narrative of the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1813 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Charles Esdaile |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844151913 |
Download Peninsular Eyewitnesses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books has concentrated on how these momentous events were perceived and understood by the people who experienced them. Charles Esdaile has brought together a vivid selection of contemporary accounts of every aspect of the war to create a panoramic yet minutely detailed picture of those years of turmoil. The story is told through memoirs, letters and eyewitness testimony from all sides. Instead of generals and statesmen, we mostly hear from less-well-known figures - junior officers and ordinary soldiers and civilians who recorded their immediate experience of the conflict.
Author | : Ronald Fraser |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2023-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 183976788X |
Download Napoleon’s Cursed War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition—the guerrillas—and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses—the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died—and restores their role in this barbaric war to its rightful place while overturning the view that this was a straightforward military campaign. This vivid, meticulously researched book offers a distinct and profound vision of “Napoleon’s Vietnam” and shows the reality of the disasters of war: the suffering, discontents and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. With a new Introduction by Tariq Ali.
Author | : G. Daly |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2013-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137323833 |
Download The British Soldier in the Peninsular War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Author | : C. Esdaile |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113743290X |
Download Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure.
Author | : Michael Glover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Wellington's Army in the Peninsula, 1808-1814 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : J. Tranié |
Publisher | : Arms & Armour Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Napoleon's War in Spain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stuart Reid |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526737647 |
Download Wellington's History of the Peninsular War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An historic account of the Peninsula War written by the man leading forces against the French, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published dispatches. Yet Wellington did, in effect, write a history of the Peninsular War in the form of four lengthy memoranda, summarizing the conduct of the war in 1809, 1810, and 1811 respectively. These lengthy accounts demonstrate Wellington’s unmatched appreciation of the nature of the war in Spain and Portugal, and relate to the operations of the French and Spanish forces as well as the Anglo-Portuguese army under his command. Unlike personal diaries or journals written by individual soldiers, with their inevitably limited knowledge, Wellington was in an unparalleled position to provide a comprehensive overview of the war. Equally, the memoranda were written as the war unfolded, not tainted with the knowledge of hindsight, providing a unique contemporaneous commentary. Brought together by renowned historian Stuart Reid with reports and key dispatches from the other years of the campaign, the result is the story of the Peninsular War told through the writings of the man who knew and understood the conflict in Iberia better than any other. These memoranda and dispatches have never been published before in a single connected narrative. Therefore, Wellington’s History of the Peninsular War 1808-1814 offers a uniquely accessible perspective on the conflict in the own words of Britain’s greatest general.