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Exciting News!
For our CS Forester fans, we are now able to offer the CS Forester classic The Gun!
A book for collectors of Napoleona, this book shines a light on a little known facet of the Napoleonic Wars. It is set in the brutal fight for liberation of Spanish and Portuguese forces (regular and partisans) and their English allies against the occupying armies of Napoleon.
Forester builds his story around a series of incidents that involve the possession of a single weapon abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War (1807-1814). The Gun is a huge eighteen-pound bronze cannon, thirteen feet long and weighing three tons, that had been lost during a retreat, rehabilitated by a priest and some villagers, and eventually seized by a band of guerillas. Three men successively hold the bands of guerillas together, thanks to their possession of this cannon which begins to gain almost mystical significance. With the gun, a band of Spanish irregulars become an army able to take on the cream of Napoleon's troops and help win the war.
The book vividly portrays the violence of combat and the brutality displayed by both sides in the Peninsular War. The novel was made into a movie in 1957, under the title The Pride and the Passion.
As with all our books, purchasing The Gun from our site gives you up to five downloads of the title in any or all of the three formats we offer so you may load it onto all your devices and read it however you like.
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