THE SPANISH ULCER: A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR

by Gates, David

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George Allen & Unwin, London, (1986), Ist edition.. 557 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Over 100 maps and nearly 50 contemporary illustrations. "Napoleon considered the war in the Peninsula so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying on his marshals inst. ead, and simulteaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign in 1812. In late 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrennes into the mainland of France. The 'Spanish Ulcer' had helped to kill its host...a war of unexpected savagery, of carn. a g e at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War. But it was also a guerilla war, fought on beautiful but difficult terrain, where problems of supply loomed large. The British Navy, dominant at sea after Trafalgar, was able to p. ro vi de crucial support to the hard-pressed, ill-equipped and often outnumbered forces fighting the French...a serious assessment of the opposing generals and their troops...analyzing in detail the social and political background." Previous owne. r's na me on free front endpeper, minor corner bumps. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling and light rubbing. VG+/VG.

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