A CAVALRY OFFICER IN THE CORUNNA CAMPAIGN 1808-1809THE JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN GORDON of the 15th Hussars
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Like the Dunkirk campaign in 1940, General Sir John Moore's advance and retreat from and to Corunna in the early stages of the Peninsular War, was a defeat that has acquired in hindsight all the glorious aura of a famous victory. This was largely due to Moore's own heroic death at the climax of the campaign; but as Churchill remarked after Dunkirk, 'Wars are not won by evacuations' and any reader of these revealing diaries will be left in no doubt...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1847349919
ISBN13:9781847349910
Release Date:July 2009
Publisher:Naval & Military Press
Length:262 Pages
Weight:0.63 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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