Cloth, dj, VG/G+. xii+278pp, 8pp b/w plates, 4 b/w maps, index, a nice copy in a spine sunned dustjacket. Account of the two seiges of Saragossa where the local population managed to defend themselves against the French in 1808 only to have the French return, with re-enforcements later the same year. Now armed & with 30,000 Spanish troops the city held for several months until, after severe fighting house to house the French captured the city.

peninsular war, napoleon, military, spain, french history