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The fifth volume in Adrian Goldsworthy's acclaimed Peninsular War series takes us to the Spring of 1811. As ever, the tangled threads of his characters' personal lives are seamlessly woven into the dramatic events of Wellington and Napoleon's high-stakes chess game in Spain and Portugal, which Adrian Goldsworthy describes with the eye of one of our finest military historians. Hamish Williams, whose rise through the ranks from lowly Gentleman Volunteer has left him with implacable enemies on both sides of the conflict, is about to test his bravery - and his judgement - to the limit in the bloodiest engagement fought by the British army up until Waterloo, the Battle of Albuera. This conventional stand-up fight, with lines of infantry firing at each other at close range for long periods of time, is something Williams is all-too familiar with, but the battle has one horrific shock in store, when French and Polish cavalry surprise a British infantry brigade, and their utter destruction seems unavoidable...

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Historical fiction

• Pełny tytuł: Whose Business is to Die
• Autor: Adrian Goldsworthy
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 368
• EAN: 9780297871866
• ISBN: 0297871862
• ID: 04572348
• Wydawca: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
• Waga: 788 g
• Wymiary: 234 × 153 × 35 mm
• Data wydania: 11. June 2015

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