The Battle of Albuera – 1811: ‘Glorious field of grief’

 
From the publishers:
On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Peninsular War. Yet despite the battle's significance in the wider campaign to expel Napoleon's armies from Spain, the story of Albuera has rarely received the coverage accorded to other battles of the war. In this […] book, Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge seek to set the historical record straight. They examine the carnage of Albuera in […] detail, and they give a[n …] account of the circumstances and the conflicting allied and French strategies that gave rise to this awful confrontation. […]
 
About the authors
Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge are authorities on the military history of the Napoleonic era and authors of The Napoleonic Army Handbook.