Napoleon's Peninsular War: The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808-1809

A renowned historian captures the French experience of the Peninsular War through soldiers' unpublished memoirs and eyewitness accounts.

While much has been written about the British campaigns of the Peninsular War, surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French. Now, using previously unseen material from the French army archives in Paris, Paul Dawson tells the story of the early years of the Peninsular War as never before.

Eyewitness accounts of the Siege...