by Patrick Rambaud · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422678618
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«La batalla» is the historical novel by Patrick Rambaud, published in 2000 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (250 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 1809, the novel recreates the Battle of Essling, near Vienna, where Napoleon suffered his first major defeat on land and some forty thousand men died in two days. Rambaud follows soldiers and officers in combat and portrays the horror and fascination of the battlefield with the realism Balzac wanted to give this story.
First installment of Patrick Rambaud's Fin d'Empire series. The novel received the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française in 1997.
For readers interested in the Napoleonic Wars, military history, and French literature.
