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Rudorff, Raymond, - WAR TO THE DEATH - The Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809.

Title: WAR TO THE DEATH - The Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809.
Description: Purnell Book Services, London, ND, club edn., x, 278pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 4 maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, based on contemporary accounts, eye-witness descriptions and official military sources an account of the two sieges of Saragossa, the ancient capital of Aragon, during the Peninsular war when the people of the city resisted the regular French army of Napoleon, when they finally broke through only to find that virtually every building had become a fortress leading to 24 days of house to house street fighting and giving the expression 'guerilla warfare' to the english langauge, edges tanned, dustwrapper, lihtly rubbed at tips, short nicks to edges repaired to reverse, spine sunned, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: military history spain aragon saragossa france bonaparte jose palafox guerilla

Price: GBP 7.00 = appr. US$ 10.00 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 42319

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