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British liberators in the age of Napoleon : volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Graciela Iglesias
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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