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Peninsular Primer,
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This review is from: The Peninsular War (Wordsworth Military Library) (Paperback)
Readers will find this handsome paperback an affordable introduction to the Napoleonic campaigns on the Iberian peninsula. Nicely illustrated with artwork of peninsular scenes and good basic maps, it's well-laced with quotes from participants and salted with mood-setting Napieresque purple prose. Unfortunately it suffers from Anglo-centricism, as do most English-language texts on the subject, but does refrain from the most biting criticism of Englands's Iberian allies. Nevertheless Parkinson's work is a good starting point from which to move on to the best single-volume history, David Gate's THE SPANISH ULCER (available soon in PB). I also recommend De Rocca's In The PENINSULA With a FRENCH HUSSAR, Hibbert's WHEATLEY DIARY & RIFLEMAN HARRIS (both PB), and August Schaumann's delightful On The ROAD With WELLINGTON.
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The Peninsular War (Wordsworth Military Library) by Roger Parkinson (Paperback - Sept. 2000)
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