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The prisoners of Cabrera : Napoleon's forgotten soldiers, 1809-1814 / Denis Smith.
LIBRA DC231 .S53 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Denis, 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Prisoners and prisons, Spanish.
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814.
- Prisoners of war--France--History--19th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Spain--Cabrera Island--History--19th century.
- History.
- Cabrera Island (Spain)--History.
- Cabrera Island (Spain).
- Spain--Cabrera Island.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, [2001]
- Summary:
- After their surrender at the Battle of Bailen, 12,000 French prisoners of war were exiled to the bleak island of Cabrera in the Mediterranean, with only the clothes on their backs. This is the meticulously researched account of their story, never before told in English. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- Dramatis Personae viii
- 1 Andalusia 1
- 2 A Disgraceful and Repulsive Idea 43
- 3 Cabrera 61
- 4 A Remote and Fleeting Hope 105
- 5 Liberation 160
- 6 Memory and Forgetting 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1568582129
- OCLC:
- 47013205
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