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Title: The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War by David Gates ISBN: 0-306-81083-2 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You can't miss it !!! (From a Spanish point of wiew)
Comment: This book is the first one I've read on the Peninsular War that don't tell the whole history purely from the British point of View. You can't stop to be astonished before the resiliance and doggedness of the various spanish armies, that defeat after defeat raises again and again to fight another battles, never asking for peace terms.It's impossible not to be amazed before these lot of patriots, conscripts, mauled veterans, badly trained, armed and feed that lost their lifes in uncountables battlefields to re-form again and again to, finally, expell the french from their fatherland. Wellington and the british troops are essential for the final Victory, of course, but If you only read Sir Charles Oman's work you can think that they fight alone against Napoleon...A book imprescidible to have a balanced view of the Peninsular War, very detailed battles with, sadly, very poor maps. recommended if you wants to have a balanced view of the Peninsular war.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best strategic overview of the Spanish campaign
Comment: David Gates' book is probably the best book on the subject of the eight year Spanish campaign that helped defeat Napoloen and his French Empire. The book proves to be superbly well written and very easy to read. Its a history book on general regular war in Spain, looking closely at battles and individual campaigns which made up this war. As one of the earlier reviewers wrote that it really doesn't go into that much details about politics, people or guerillas. I supposed for an one volume book, there probably isn't enough pages to due justice if Gates spread out too thinly. With this in mind, this book with its extremely readable writing, should be part of every Napoleonic library.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book on this conflict
Comment: This and Lovett's Napoleon and the birth of modern Spain are the reference books in english about Peninsular War.From different points of view both are informative, balanced and with good bibliography. They are in sharp contrast with other widely known works said to be classics, that probably are in the unfair, unacademic jingo league, as Glover's Peninsular War A Concise Military History edited by Penguin (?)
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Title: Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther E. Rothenberg ISBN: 0253202604 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee by John Robert Elting ISBN: 0306807572 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Peninsular War: A New History by Charles Esdaile ISBN: 1403962316 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: 1812: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by Paul Britten Austin ISBN: 185367415X Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars by Vincent J. Esposito, John R. Elting ISBN: 1853673463 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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