A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR
VOLUME VII:  AUGUST 1813 TO APRIL 14, 1814
ST. SEBASTIAN, INVASION OF FRANCE, THE NIVELLE, THE NIVE, ORTHEZ, TOULOUSE
by Sir Charles Oman

8.75 x 5.5 in. (222 x 141 mm).  832 pages.  2 illustrations, 11 maps.

Greenhill Books is pleased to announce the republication of Sir Charles Oman's A History of the Peninsular War, one of the most important histories of the Napoleonic period ever written. All seven volumes have now been reprinted.

This republication of Oman's magnum opus is presented with a new introduction by leading Napoleonic historial Colonel John R. Elting (USA, Ret.).

The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir Charles Oman's seven-volume history of the campaign is an unrivalled and essential work. His extensive use and analysis of French, Spanish, Portuguese and British participants' accounts and archival material, together with his own inspection of the battlefields, provides a comprehensive and balanced account of this most important episode in Napoleonic military history.

Sir Charles Oman was one of Britian's greatest and most celebrated hisotrians. His other books published by Greenhill are A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages and A Hisotry of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. Between August 1813 and the end of hostilities in April 1814, Napoleon's forces were finally expelled from the Iberian Peninsula. Wellington's army invaded southern France, only halting its operations when news was received of Napoleon's abdication.

The events covered in this volume include the British siege and capture of St. Sebastian; the final campaigning in eastern Spain; Wellington's invasion of France; and the last actions of the war in the Battle of Toulouse and the French sortie from Bayonne. A chapter on the place of the Peninsular War in history concludes Oman's monumental work.

Greenhill Books  ISBN 1-85367-227-0

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