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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gates, David

Diseases & Physical Ailments

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Appropriate for English composition courses that have a strong focus on grammar and in which the writing process is introduced first. This volume gives students the opportunity to practice writing right from the first page. The first part of the book focuses on purpose and audience. It provides a wide variety of humorous and realistic subjects about which students practice paragraph and longer forms of writing. The second part, which covers the specifics of grammar using student writing and common student errors as the basis for discussion and exercises, can be used in the classroom or as a self-help guide. Lots of new examples and exercises.

Put It in Writing: Composition and Grammar (2nd Edition)

Reference

Buckley, Joanne

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson Education Canada

The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called "the Spanish ulcer" ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as "a major achievement...the first brief and balanced account of the war to have appeared within our generation." Illustrated with over a hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that resonates powerfully to this day—and figures prominently in Bernard Cornwell's internationally acclaimed novels of the Napoleonic era.

Da Capo Press

From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress—and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance: a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open—wisecracking all the way.

Jernigan (Picador Books)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Picador

This book is not a campaign history, but rather an examination of the development of warfare in its wider context in the course of the 1800s. David Gates's study not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the nineteenth century but also seeks to explore its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political and cultural change. In this examination of war per se, specific engagements and campaigns are invoked only to highlight the turning points in the development of the way in which military operations were conducted. Indeed, Gates argues, actual fighting became just part of an ever more complex situation as competition between dynasties gave way to rivalries between peoples and the 'totality' of warfare increased; if attainable at all, victory on the battlefield could, and frequently did, prove cruelly deceptive, for success here might ultimately be nullified by failure elsewhere. Thoughtful, wide-ranging and informed, for anybody seeking a work that places war during the 1800s in its wider historical context, this book is essential reading.

Warfare in Nineteenth Century (European History in Perspective, 65)

History

Military

Red Globe Press

Warfare in the Nineteenth Century not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the century, but also explores its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political, and cultural change. The book discusses specific battles and cam

Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (European History in Perspective)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, and fewer still that place the conflict in any broader frameworks. This new study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings and applying a "total" history approach, it covers the causes and effects of the conflict and its place in the evolution of modern warfare.

The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 (Modern Wars)

Europe

Hodder Education Publishers

Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst forupheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day. There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, and fewer still that place the conflict in any broader frameworks.This new study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings and applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes and effects of the conflict and places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare. It reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures,including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9. The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political and intellectual dimensions.

These eleven stories, along with a masterful novella, mark the triumphant return of David Gates, whom New York magazine anointed “a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.” A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young or old or neither, who are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living—or assisted-dying—facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently—even when they’re going nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to the countryside of upstate New York and New England. Relentlessly inventive, alternately hilarious and tragic, always moving, this book proves yet again that Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella

United States

KNOPF

This study assesses the opposing generals and their troops and analyzes the social and political background of the war that ranged Spanish regulars and guerrillas, the Portuguese, and British forces led by Sir John More and the Duke of Wellington againstNapoleon's forces

Norton & Co. Inc.

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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War

Put It in Writing: Composition and Grammar (2nd Edition)

The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War

Jernigan (Picador Books)

Warfare in Nineteenth Century (European History in Perspective, 65)

Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (European History in Perspective)

The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 (Modern Wars)

The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 (Modern Wars)

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella

The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War