TALAVERA: WELLINGTON'S FIRST VICTORY IN SPAIN by Andrew W Field

(Subject: European Conflicts & The Napoleonic Wars) Previous owner's name on endpaper. Highlighting in bibliography. Plastic sleeve over dustjacket. Slight rippling of pages. The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. The British and Spanish under Wellesley and Cuesta won a tactical victory over the French forces of Victor and Joseph Bonaparte. The battle was the climax of the offensive launched by Wellesley and his Spanish allies to expel the French from Madrid. Using documentary records, eyewitness accounts and a painstaking study of the terrain, the author reconstructs the action and questions assumptions about the event that have grown up over the last 200 years. He also provides an extensive tour of the battlefield. (Published: 2006) (Publisher: Pen & Sword) (ISBN: 1844152685) (Pagination: 184pp 10 maps, illustrations) (Condition: Good) UL-XXXXXX