Corunna (Great Battles) by Christopher Hibbert epub fb2 djvu
Author: | Christopher Hibbert |
Title: | Corunna (Great Battles) |
ISBN: | 1842127209 |
ISBN13: | 978-1842127209 |
Other Formats: | lit azw mbr txt |
Pages: | 224 pages |
Publisher: | Phoenix (May 1, 2004) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1367 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1849 kb |
Category: | History |
Subcategory: | Military |
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Best-selling author Christopher Hibbert offers an absorbing chronicle of the fierce and deadlyconfrontation that saved the British army from annihilation during the Napoleonic Wars, but resulted in the death of their fine general: Sir John Moore. With the aid of eyewitness accounts, modern photographs, battle plans, and maps, Hibbert paints a horrifying picture of the hardshipsand sufferings of this bitter campaign, which unfolded in Corunna, Spain on January 17th, 1809. “Fast-flowing, taut and economical...superb.”—Times Literary Supplement