Wellington's Peninsular War - Battles and Battlefields

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Pen and Sword Military - An Imprints of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2005. 2005 Reprint . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 185 Pages Indexed. Identical endpaper maps of The Peninsular War maps showing the Frontier from 1808 to 1814. First published in Great Britain in 1990 and reprinted in 2005 in this format. No defects noted and interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. Illustrated with 26 Maps. This book provides a concise and comprehensive account for use by both professional and amateur historians and which includes details of the battlefields as they are today and how to find and explore them. The Peninsular War (1808-1841) was part of the twenty year struggle against Napoleon Bonaparte that involved campaigns in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the West Indies, South America and South Africa and until 1914 was known as The Great War. The author has presented a balanced picture of the campaign and gives due credit to the Spanish and Portuguese efforts. Arranged in sections, the author starts with a review of the whole war and the background to it and follows with a complete chronological account of the war year by year. Finally a chapter on each of the major battles includes maps and photographs of the battlefields, orders of battle and instructions on how to find the battlefield today and what to see there. The maps show the ground as it was at the time but also include modern features to identify where the fighting took place enabling the reader to stand where Wellington would have stood when surveying the battlefield. Contents in Three Parts: The War in Perspective, The War Year by Year, and The Battles and Battlefields.