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Lieutenant Colonel Tomkinson's memoirs are a rarity amongst the many books written by British soldiers of their experiences during the Napoleonic period, in that it has been written by a cavalryman. This in itself makes the book interesting, but the author was also a witness to many of the pivotal...

Constant Spanish guerrilla activity so drained the resources and diverted the attention of the French military that Wellington was able to advance against and overcome a numerically superior enemy. So many French soldiers were being used to counter the guerrillas and the threat that they posed that...

Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War. Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting cocks' of his army; fewer appreciate that they represented...

Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their accounts...

Wellington added a Judge-Advocate-General to his staff in 1812 “to ensure that courts-martial were conducted with proper forms and due appreciation of the validity of evidence – in which the commander-in-chief considered that they had often failed . . . Larpent, who has left an interesting diary...

De Cartago a Sagunto es la quinta novela de la quinta y última serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós.De Cartago a Sagunto —del levantamiento del cantón de Cartagena a la proclamación de Alfonso XII en Sagunto— es el trayecto que traza Galdós en este episodio, de la mano...

Few French historians of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period have the stature of Arthur Chuquet, his copious writings on the era are most penetrating and accurate. He was also a master of infusing them with a character of the men that shaped the age; this was possible only by his encyclopaedic...

The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how...

In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants. Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial...

General De Brack served Napoleon and France for many years as a light cavalryman during the wars that raged for over a decade. He served under some of the most able and dashing of officers, including the legendary Lasalle and the celebrated Pajol. During this time, the skills and instincts of outpost...

La historia se abre con Lázaro presentando a su familia: su padre, perseguido por la justicia, ya ha muerto, y él vive con su madre, su padrastro, que es negro, y su hermanastro mulato. Poco después, al padrastro es también ejecutado por robar. Después, Lázaro es puesto al servicio de un ciego,...

Al cabo de ocho siglos, el Cantar de Mio Cid sigue siendo uno de los poemas épicos más notables, y el único que ha sobrevivido de la España medieval. En él se narran las legendarias gestas del caballero Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, en las batallas que enfrentaron a moros y cristianos,...

Amar después de la muerte es una historia de amor inspirada en un tema morisco y ambientado en las Alpujarras y Granada. El mundo islámico es presentado aquí con respeto y, en cierto modo, nostalgia.

En la mitología griega, Narciso es un hermoso joven, hijo del dios del río Cefiso y de la ninfa Liríope. Al nacer, sus padres consultaron al adivino Tiresias que dio el siguiente veredicto: «Vivirá hasta viejo si no se contempla a sí mismo». Todos se enamoraban de Narciso, pero él los rechazaba....