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Loading... Talavera: Wellington's First Victory in Spain (edition 2005)by Andrew Field (Author)
Work InformationTALAVERA: Wellington's First Victory in Spain by Andrew W. Field
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A slim but solid, highly readable account of Wellington's first Spanish victory accompanied by decent maps, excellent orders of battle (huarrah!), a solid bibliography and includes a very nice tour of the battlefield with photographs. Nothing fancy but a very solid volume for those who want more than an Osprey on this bloody battle. Unusally, the author even has some good things to say about the Spanish! Recommended. ( ) no reviews | add a review
The author of Waterloo shares an extensive history of the Battle of Talavera between the British & Spanish and the French. The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a bloody contest 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. Andrew Field's graphic analysis is the first full-length reassessment to be published in recent times. Using documentary records, eyewitness accounts, and a painstaking study of the terrain, he reconstructs the action in vivid detail and questions assumptions about the event that have grown up over the last 200 years. He also provides an extensive tour of the battlefield. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.27History and Geography Europe Europe Early Modern 1453-1914 Napoleonic period 1789-1815LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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