Santacara: La Guerra de la Independencia

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Carlos Santacara:

La Guerra de la Independencia vista por los británicos

An extraordinary, wonderful book. Eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War, very many of them never before published. Not published by Tecla but we have stock of it. 820 large pages long, with maps. In Spanish.

268 x 196 mm. Published by Machado Libros in Spain, 2005.

Paperbound WP 0245. At a low price considering its size and length:
Price 36,00 euros / or 30.00 UK pounds / or 49.00 US dollars

An ideal Christmas or other present for anyone interested in the Peninsular War (otherwise known as the Guerra de la Independencia) (and who can read Spanish).

This book consists of eye-witness testimony about the war from the British soldiers, travellers, etc. who were actually there: transcriptions of their letters home, their diaries, memoirs, articles in obscure journals, mss from obscure libraries . . . This is absolutely first hand testimony, from those who were there at the actual moment, usually not from decades later nor from people who later on had their own agendas, a rare kind of book indeed on this kind of scale. Captain Marryat, for example, is here as a young naval officer on shore in Spain with a girl on each arm, he who later was the famous author of adventure stories. Santacara tells the story in chronological order, illustrating every episode with the words of those British people who were there, texts which he has himself translated from English into Spanish, a Herculean task in itself.

Note that it is in Spanish, so it is only useful to you if you read Spanish. And it isn't much about music, with only the occasional reference.

Books like this in Spain have a habit of going out of print quickly, so if you are interested you might like to take this opportunity to get it while it is here. In my opinion its price is low considering its size and the number of pages. A wonderful present for anyone who can easily read Spanish and who is interested in the time of Napoleon and Spain. Low postage worldwide (considering its weight of 1600g).

A special offer of free postage worldwide: if you buy this book using the PayPal buttons and pay the postage which the PayPal shopping cart charges for the Santacara book, then if you buy any other Tecla items at the same time (except only the big items TECLA 1100, 1200, 0850, 1001, 1002, and 1003), and in the same PayPal shopping cart, then we will refund any extra postage which the PayPal shopping cart may charge over and above the postage for Santacara. That means that any other Tecla books which you order at the same time as Santacara will be post free worldwide. Read more.

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Clothbound WP 0245 Santacara: La Guerra de la Independencia:

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