Napoleon's Cursed War Spanish Popular Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808–14
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Ronald Fraser (1930-2012) is the author of, among other works, Blood of Spain, a celebrated oral history of the Spanish Civil War.Fraser has re-created a world, barely glimpsed by previous historians, of the Spanish popular resistance and suffering during the anti-Napoleonic war ... An excellent work.
- Carlos Martinez Shaw, El Pais
A milestone in the historiography of the war.
- Alistair Hennessy, New Left Review
Fraser has breathed life into a historic era... The real protagonist of his work is the people and their tragedy.
- Luis Ribot, El Mundo
A superb complement to Fraser's classic <i>Blood of Spain</i>, of 'history from below'.
- Ricardo Garcia Carcel, ABC
Like Goya in <i>The Disasters of War</i>, Fraser has engraved in the written word the spirit and sacrifices of the popular anti-Napoleonic resistance, a precursor of the anti-fascist resistance of the [Spanish] Civil War.
- Andreu Mayayo, El Periodico de Catalunya
A magisterial reconstruction of the Peninsular war of 1808-1814
- Tariq Ali, Guardian
This scholarly work investigates those who waged Spain's popular struggle between 1808 and 1814, and why. It's history from the ground up: momentous events lived by those whose voice is rarely heard...Fraser builds a mosaic from "shard-like" fragments, a labour of detection that would have swamped anyone with a less sure grip on the sweep of Spanish history.
- Elizabeth Nash, Independent
Superb . a fine history of the popular resistance Napoleon could not defeat.
- Chris Bambery, Counterfire
With a new Introduction by Perry Anderson.