by Ángeles de Irisarri · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466323000
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«La artillera» is the historical novel by Ángeles de Irisarri, published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 1808, the novel follows ten women from different social classes, real and imaginary, during the French siege of Zaragoza. Agustina de Aragón, nicknamed the Artillera, along with the countess of Bureta, Manuela Sancho or Mother Rafols, takes up arms and fires cannons in defense of the city amid hunger, plague and death.
The novel bears the subtitle «La lucha de España por la libertad» and this edition was published in April 2009.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Spanish War of Independence and the role of women in war.
