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In 1808, Napoleon launched a war against Spain, sparking a savage conflict that lasted nearly six years, cost half a million lives, and helped to bring down his empire.

We tell the story of this war through more than a dozen dramatic accounts from Spanish, French, British, German and Polish participants. Together, they provide a raw and unflinching perspective of Napoleon's doomed attempt to conquer the Iberian peninsula.

For the Spanish, it was their ‘War of Independence’ – for their British allies, ‘the Peninsular War’. These are the voices of witnesses to those momentous days.

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Thank you to Osprey Publishing for kind permission to use several of their images in this video. They have many excellent books covering the Peninsular War such as:

Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808–14: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/s...
Corunna 1809: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/c...
Badajoz 1812: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/b...
Salamanca 1812: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/s...
Vittoria 1813: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/v...

📚 Reading list:
‘Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer’ by Jean-Baptiste Barres
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97813990...
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97813...

‘Peninsular Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813’ by Charles J. Esdaille
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97818...

‘The Recollections of Rifleman Harris’ by Benjamin Randell Harris
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97804868...
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97814...

‘Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: In the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815’ by John Kincaid
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97810160...
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97893...

‘The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns’ by William Lawrence
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97814745...
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97814...

‘Der Nassauer Johann Biersack: Sein Leben Als Soldat von 1806 Bis 1814’ compiled by Dr Reinhard Münch (translated by Mo-Chueh for the Weltseele Project: https://weltseele.miraheze.org/wiki/M...)

‘With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire’ by Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noël
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97818483...
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/97818...

‘A British Rifle Man: The Journals & Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo’ by George Simmons
US: https://bookshop.org/a/99532/97810159...

You can visit our online bookshop to find great books on the Peninsular War and other Epic History topics:
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