Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic Wars: Spain and Portugal 1808-1814
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In 1808, Napoleon launched a war against Spain, sparking a savage conflict that lasted nearly six years, cost half a million lives, and helped to bring down his empire.
We tell the story of this war through more than a dozen dramatic accounts from Spanish, French, British, German and Polish participants. Together, they provide a raw and unflinching perspective of Napoleon's doomed attempt to conquer the Iberian peninsula.
For the Spanish, it was their ‘War of Independence’ – for their British allies, ‘the Peninsular War’. These are the voices of witnesses to those momentous days.
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Thank you to Osprey Publishing for kind permission to use several of their images in this video. They have many excellent books covering the Peninsular War such as:
Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808–14: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/spanish-guerrillas-in-the-peninsular-war-180814-9781841766294/
Corunna 1809: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/corunna-1809-9781855329683/
Badajoz 1812: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/badajoz-1812-9781855329577/
Salamanca 1812: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/salamanca-1812-9781855326040/
Vittoria 1813: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/vittoria-1813-9781855327399/
📚 Reading list:
‘Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer’ by Jean-Baptiste Barres
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9781399077231
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781399077231
‘Peninsular Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813’ by Charles J. Esdaille
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781844151912
‘The Recollections of Rifleman Harris’ by Benjamin Randell Harris
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9780486836034
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781474626316
‘Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: In the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815’ by John Kincaid
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9781016060776
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9789388396257
‘The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns’ by William Lawrence
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9781474540155
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781409987925
‘Der Nassauer Johann Biersack: Sein Leben Als Soldat von 1806 Bis 1814’ compiled by Dr Reinhard Münch (translated by Mo-Chueh for the Weltseele Project: https://weltseele.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page)
‘With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire’ by Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noël
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9781848328358
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781853676420
‘A British Rifle Man: The Journals & Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo’ by George Simmons
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/9781015906280
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