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Best-selling author Christopher Hibbert offers an absorbing chronicle of the fierce and deadly
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confrontation that saved the British army from annihilation during the Napoleonic Wars, but resulted in the death of their fine general: Sir John Moore. With the aid of eyewitness accounts, modern photographs, battle plans, and maps, Hibbert paints a horrifying picture of the hardships
and sufferings of this bitter campaign, which unfolded in Corunna, Spain on January 17th, 1809. “Fast-flowing, taut and economical...superb.”—Times Literary Supplement
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Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley and Oxford. He served as an infantry officer during the war, was twice wounded and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. Described by Professor J.H. Plumb as 'a writer of the highest ability', he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Hon. D. Litt of Leicester University.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1842127209
- ISBN 13 9781842127209
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