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| #1249408 in Books | 2003-10-28 | 2003-10-28 | Format: International Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.06 x5.08l,.0 | File type: PDF | 624 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Slightly different perspective on Peninsular War|By James H.|This book surprised me, because it strongly emphasized the Spanish contribution to the War in the Peninsula. The conventional approach, in so many other books, has been to mention the Spanish and their incredibly inept leadership and untrained soldiers. This book gives a substantial amount of information about why t|From Publishers Weekly|The Peninsular War could fairly be called Napoleon's Vietnam-a bloody, protracted struggle, part conventional and part guerilla, that sapped the strength of the French Empire and left Spain and Portugal in ruins. This new history is a sure
For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1805-14. Trafalgar destroyed its navy and the country degenerated into a brutalized shambles with French and British armies marching across it at will. The result was a war which killed over a million Spaniards and ended its empire. This book is t...
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