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The Peninsular War: A New History
Charles Esdaile
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| #2431323 in Books | Palgrave Macmillan | 2003-06-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.60 x1.83 x6.36l, | File type: PDF | 640 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| And Now For Something Completely Different...|By HMS Warspite|Charles Esdaile's 2002 "The Peninsular War" is something rather different among the many British histories of this conflict, most of which focus on the heroic role of the British Army in ejecting Napoleon's Imperial forces from Portugal and Spain. Esdaile takes a long step back in perspective, seeing the Peninsular|From Publishers Weekly|The Peninsular War could fairly be called Napoleon's Vietnam-a bloody, protracted struggle, part conventional and part guerilla, that sapped the strength of the French Empire and left Spain and Portugal in ruins. This new history is a sure
At the end of the 18th century Spain remained one of the world's most powerful empires. Portugal, too, was prosperous at the time. By 1808, everything had changed. Portugal was under occupation and ravaged by famine, disease, economic problems and political instability. Spain had imploded and worse was to come. For the next six years, the peninsula was the helpless victim of others, suffering perhaps over a million deaths while troops from all over Europe tore it to...
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