The Spanish Ulcer A History of the Peninsular War by David. Gates ISBN 13: 9780306810831

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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8x6x1. First printing. Spine creased, pencil marginalia. 2001 Trade Paperback. xiv, 557 pp. The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called "the Spanish ulcer" ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Sir Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as… Read More

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Other than a mark on the lower text block, this is a tight and unmarked copy-" The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with a total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called "the Spanish ulcer" ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as "a major achievement the first brief and balanced account of the war to have appeared within our generation."… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. At last in paperback: The story of the savage war that drained Napoleon's armies and set the stage for his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. "A splendid book."-New York Times Book Review.

Da Capo Pr, 2001. Paperback. New. new ed edition. 576 pages. 9.00x5.25x1.50 inches.