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Article: Fighting Napoleon: Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2006
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Fighting Napoleon: Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. By Charles J. Esdaile. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 272. $40.00.)
Few authors are as qualified as this one to undertake this study of the guerillas in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. He has written a number of books on the subject, including Peninsular War [2003] and The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War [1998]. This study is grounded in a mastery of the historiographical literature and in archives stretching from Madrid to Barcelona, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Carpetas, and London, to name but a few.
In this study, anchored in a sophisticated analysis of ...