"Corunna: A Retreat " Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2015 3:14 p.m. PST |
"In January 1809, as 275,000 French troops under Napoleon sweep across Spain, an undefeated British army retreats to the coast for rescue by the Royal Navy. Its commander, Lieutenant General Sir John Moore, has been instructed that, being vital to Britain in its struggle against Napoleon, the army must be preserved at all costs. But Moore has also been ordered to aid his Spanish allies in their efforts to overthrow a tyrannical invader. The impossibility of achieving both aims ensures disaster on an epic scale. Corunna: A Retreat by Max Benitz is the story of what happened on the retreat to Corunna, during which many British troops behaved atrociously in the towns and villages of Leon and Galicia, burning, looting and killing as they passed through. By the time they reached the coast, Moore himself and a quarter of his men were dead. Eyewitnesses and historians have disagreed about the retreat ever since. Was Moore placed in an impossible situation, or was he the architect of his own ruin? To attempt to answer these and many other questions, Max Benitz walked the route of the retreat in the winter of 2013-14. In this book he tells the story of Corunna, one of the most extraordinary campaigns of the Napoleonic wars." See here
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| Gazzola | 19 Dec 2015 5:58 a.m. PST |
Armand Nice find. But British committing atrocities-impossible! Just, er, a lack of discipline. LOL It is now on my to get list. Well spotted. |
| Gazzola | 19 Dec 2015 6:15 a.m. PST |
Drat! Just did a search and from what I discovered, it looks like it might not be available until next year and one seller is offering a publication date of September 2016. Still, on the positive side, it is certainly something to look forward to and it might well indicate that Napoleonic titles will still be coming out after the flooding of the market with 1815 titles. |
| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2015 10:53 a.m. PST |
Happy you like it my friend!. About atrocities… well… see this one… (smile) TMP link
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| Gazzola | 20 Dec 2015 4:03 a.m. PST |
Tango01 Sssushh!!! We don't want to spoil Christmas for the British-never-do-anything-wrong lovers, do we. LOL |
| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2015 4:07 p.m. PST |
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goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.