New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. xiv, 557 p.: heavily illustrated; 24 cm. (9½ inches). Dark green cloth over boards, with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. First American edition. Includes chronology, appendices, references, select bibliography, and index. "Combining scholarship with a vivid narrative," Gates chronicles "a war of unexpected savagery, of carnage at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War. But it was also a guerilla war, fought on beautiful but difficult terrain, where problems of supply loomed large" [from the dust jacket]. A marvelous book about the war between the British and Napoleonic France in Spain and Portugal. In Fine/Near Fine condition: dust jacket slightly rubbed at head of spine.. First American Edition. Fine/Near Fine.