War to the Death: the Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809 by Raymond Rudorff

War to the Death: the Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809 by Raymond Rudorff

The intensity of Spanish resistance to French occupation of their country during the Napoleonic Wars is vividly portrayed in this classic account of the sieges of Saragossa in 1808 and 1809. The French army expected to have little difficulty in taking this key Spanish city, but they encountered ferocious opposition from Spanish soldiers and civilians. They were embroiled in a murderous, long-drawn out operation that lasted for almost a year. Casualties were very heavy on both sides, as was the suffering of the citizens of Saragossa, and the city was ruined by weeks of hand-to-hand, room-to-room fighting. Raymond Rudorff's classic account, reissued in paperback, of one of the defining events in the Peninsular War gives a vivid insight into the siege and the street-fighting, and into the fierce determination of the Spanish to expel the French from their country.

Raymond Rudorff was a novelist and a distinguished writer on eighteenth-century French and Spanish history. His best-known books are The House of the Brandersons: A Novel of Possession, Belle Epoque: Paris in the Nineties, Knights and Their World, Myth of France and Nineteen Twenties Style.

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ISBN 13	9781844152841
ISBN 10	1844152847
Title	War to the Death: the Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809
Author	Raymond Rudorff
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2005-07-26
Number of pages	388
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