CORUNNA Author:Christopher Hibbert Best-selling author Christopher Hibbert offers an absorbing chronicle of the fierce and deadly — 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 ... more »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« less