WAR IN THE [Iberian] PENINSULA,
by Jan Read
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, London 1977 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Twelve b&w illustrations. Drawing upon contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, Jan Read's book sets the conflict in its wider historical context and pays special attention to the activities of the guerillas, whose day-to-day attacks on the invader inflicted a terrible toll on the French and did as much to achieve ultimate victory as the more spectatular victories of Wellington. Double-page map of Spain & Portugal with sites of major battles and sieges included.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35358
- Title
- WAR IN THE [Iberian] PENINSULA,
- Author
- Jan Read
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Keywords
- Wellesley Oporto Galicia Corunna Spanish Bourbons Bayonne Lisbon Cadiz Massena Guerrillas Peninsula War
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Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
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