A CAVALRY OFFICER IN THE CORUNNA CAMPAIGN 1808-1809THE JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN GORDON of the 15th Hussars

by H.C. Wylly and Alexander Gordon

Like the Dunkirk campaign in 1940, General Sir John Moore's advance and retreat from and to Corunna in the early stages of the Peninsular War, was a defeat that has acquired in hindsight all the glorious aura of a famous victory. This was largely due to Moore's own heroic death at the climax of the campaign; but as Churchill remarked after Dunkirk, 'Wars are not won by evacuations' and any reader of these revealing diaries will be left in no doubt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847349919
• ISBN13: 9781847349910
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"