The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War
This study assesses the opposing generals and their troops and analyzes the social and political background of the war that ranged Spanish regulars and guerrillas, the Portuguese, and British forces...
" Illustrated with over a hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that resonates powerfully to this day—and figures prominently in Bernard Cornwell's ...
Yet the war was to end with total defeat for the French. In late 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into the mainland of France. This is the first major military history of the war for half a century.
This text provides a history of the savage war which Napoleon considered insignificant, yet which ended in defeat for the French.