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Napoleon's Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War | 
 enlarge | Author: Ronald Fraser
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 50075
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.9
ISBN: 1844670821
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.2740946
EAN: 9781844670826
ASIN: 1844670821
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 Forgotten war April 28, 2008
Mr. D. W. Nyman
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr. Fraser has produced a comprehensive, well-researched and eminently readable book of a war previously known mainly from the viewpoints of the main protagonists. To have such a detailed account in English seen from perspective of the Spanish population is a unique achievement. The writer's extensive knowledge of Spanish history makes this book a pleasure to read for anyone interested in the history of the country, with several themes being relevant to more recent times and events.
 A HISTORICAL MASTERPIECE April 11, 2008
Carlotta Galdon (Seville, Spain)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Historical analysis can learn incomparably more from individual experiences than was ever conceded by Hegel, leave alone, Marx.Ronald Fraser understood this a long time ago with his path-breaking oral history on the Spanish civil war. This account of the resistance to Napoleon during the Peninsular War depicts the richness, differentiation and vigour of ordinary Spaniards as they confronted the conqueror of Europe and moreover one who conquered in the name of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, i.e., civilization. In Fraser's history, the result of over a decade of intensive research, the individual's experience of himself and what he encounters contributes, as in Goya's paintings, to enriching the canvas as a whole. This history will soon become the major work on the period, the distilled thoughts of a mature and questioning mind.
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