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by Ronald Fraser

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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.

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"Mr Fraser is an excellent traditional historian ... not so much concerned with the grandees and memoir writers on either side as with 'ordinary people, ' whose voices in history are usually silent." -Raymond Carr, New York Review of Books

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  • Title Napoleon's Cursed War: Spanish Popular Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808-14
  • Author Ronald Fraser
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, London
  • Publication date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781844670826 / 1844670821
  • Weight 2.27 lbs (1.03 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.38 x 6.38 x 1.58 in (23.83 x 16.21 x 4.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: Spanish
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008295753
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.27

Media reviews

“Fraser has re-created a world, barely glimpsed by previous historians, of the Spanish popular resistance and suffering during the anti-Napoleonic war ... An excellent work.”—Carlos Martinez Shaw, El Pais

Napoleon’s Cursed War marks a fundamental milestone in the war’s historiography, both past and future. It is a superb complement to Fraser’s classic Blood of Spain, of ‘history from below.’”—Ricardo Garcia Carcel, ABC

“Fraser has breathed life into a historic era... The real protagonist of his work is the people and their tragedy.”—Luis Ribot, El Mundo

“Like Goya in The Disasters of War, Fraser has engraved in the written word the spirit and sacrifices of the popular anti-Napoleonic resistance, a precursor of the anti-fascist resistance of the [Spanish] Civil War.”—Andreu Mayayo, El Periodico de Catalunya

Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2009, Page 0
  • London Review of Books, 11/06/2008, Page 18

About the author

Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including In Hiding, In Search of a Past, Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War.

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