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Faber and Faber London 1st edition 1977. Hard cover dust wrapper 256pp b&w illustrations. Dw has some sunning and a small tear on top front corner, now protected. Foxing on page edges and a little marking on board edges. Else very good. Drawing upon contemporary documents and eyewitness account, Read sets the Peninsular conflict in its wider historical contexts and pays particular attention to guerilla activities, which inflicted a terrible toll on the French and did as much to achieve ultimate victory as the more spectacular victories of Wellington.