Book Description

8vo, 19cm, [x], 384,[32]p., 12 b/w illustrations by Wal[ter] Paget. Original decorative cloth (very light moisture mark to upper board), upper cover gilt titling with colour vignette of soldier carrying a rifle. Henty’s stirring retelling of the 1809 Peninsular War battle between the British, under General Sir John Moore, and the French, under Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult, at Corunna in Spain. A very good copy (light spotting).
Author Henty, G.A.
Date 1898.
Publisher London: Blackie & Son,

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