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British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: Volunteering Under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War

by Graciela Iglesias Rogers
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781472575333
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 348
  • Original Price: GBP 38.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / General, Military / General, and Modern / 19th Century

This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at times an equally overbearing ideology: Napoleon's imperialism.

Although small in number, British volunteers played a surprisingly influential role in the conduct of war operations, in politics, gender and social equality, in cultural life both in Britain and Spain and even in relation to emancipation movements in Latin America. Some became prisoners of war while a few served with guerrilla forces.

Many of the works published about the Peninsular War in the last two decades have adopted an Anglocentric narrative, writing the Spanish forces out of victories, or have tended to present the war, not as much won by the allies, but lost by the French. This book takes a radically different approach by drawing on previously untapped archival sources to argue that victory was the outcome of a truly transnational effort.

Graciela Iglesias Rogers is Tutor and Lecturer in Modern History at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK. She is also a former Reuters fellow with a long career in journalism.

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