The Napoleonic Wars (3): The Peninsular War 1807-1814 (Essential Histories 17)

A brief 'military history' treatment of the Peninsular War.
 
Contents
– Introduction
– Chronology
– Background to war: Perennial foes – Britain, France and Spain
– Warring sides: Opposing forces
– Outbreak: Origins of the conflict
– The fighting: A war of contrasts
– Portrait of a soldier: Private Edward Costello, 95th Rifles
– The world around war: The artistic works of Francisco Goya
– Portrait of a civilian: George Canning
– How the war ended: Anti-climax – the campaign of 1814
– Conclusion and consequences: Losses, lessons and legacy
 
Gregory Fremont-Barnes is the author of The French Revolutionary Wars (2001), The Peninsular War (2002), and The Fall of the French Empire, 1813-1815 (2002). He is currently co-editing the four-volume Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War.