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"""...does a wonderful job in describing a portion of that history during the Napoleonic Wars...uses a number of contemporary sources to tell the story of the Rock, including not only military and naval but civilian as well; they suffered as much, if not more, than the soldiers and performed their part in its defense...an important addition to the literature of the Napoleonic Era""-- ""The Past in Review"" ""...the first full study of the siege in over 40 years, drawing on accounts written by British soldiers who took an active part in the operations and on later studies.""-- ""Book News, Inc."""

...does a wonderful job in describing a portion of that history during the Napoleonic Wars...uses a number of contemporary sources to tell the story of the Rock, including not only military and naval but civilian as well; they suffered as much, if not more, than the soldiers and performed their part in its defense...an important addition to the literature of the Napoleonic Era -- The Past in Review ...the first full study of the siege in over 40 years, drawing on accounts written by British soldiers who took an active part in the operations and on later studies. -- Book News, Inc.

...the first full study of the siege in over 40 years, drawing on accounts written by British soldiers who took an active part in the operations and on later studies. --Book News, Inc. ...does a wonderful job in describing a portion of that history during the Napoleonic Wars...uses a number of contemporary sources to tell the story of the Rock, including not only military and naval but civilian as well; they suffered as much, if not more, than the soldiers and performed their part in its defense...an important addition to the literature of the Napoleonic Era --The Past in Review

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James Falkner is a leading authority on eighteenth-century warfare and he has made a special study of the military exploits of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. His book, Great and Glorious Days: Marlborough's Battles 1704-1709, is one of the outstanding studies of the subject. His other books include Blenheim 1704, Ramillies 1706, Marlborough Goes to War: Eyewitness Accounts 1702-1713, Marlborough's Sieges, Marlborough's Battlefields, Fire Over the Rock: The Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-1783, Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV's France, Marlborough's War Machine and The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714.

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