The Sun Over Breda
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Inigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield...
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Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Inigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth. The troops are weary and ill-nourished and the winter has been long
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780753823606 (0753823608)
Publish date: September 2006
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of Orion)
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Adventures of Captain Alatriste (#3)
bookshelves: fraudio, translation, spring-2010, swashbuckler, war, philosophy, historical-fiction, dutch, adventure, published-1998, art-forms Read on April 15, 2010 Unabridged read by Dave John.Blurb - In The Sun over Breda, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hi...
Unabridged read by Dave John.Blurb - In The Sun over Breda, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda. Fifteen-year-old Íñigo Balboa e...
This is the third in Perez-Reverte's 'Captain Alatriste' series, however, I felt that the author was inspired to write this book mostly out of a desire to write a book about the Siege of Breda and Velasquez' painting 'The Surrender of Breda', not because the events forward the ongoing story of Diego...
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