by Patrick Rambaud · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427023345
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«La Batalla» is the historical novel by Patrick Rambaud, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, with 248 pages, in Spanish.
The novel is set at the Battle of Essling, on the outskirts of Vienna, where Napoleon and an army of many nationalities face Austrians and Hungarians. Rambaud describes with realism, in the vein of Balzac, the harshness of war: a soldier waking up among amputated limbs and the emperor's first major setback.
Goncourt Prize 1997 and Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy. First installment of the Fin d’Empire series, translated by Jordi Fibla and with a prologue by Javier García Sánchez.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction, especially those interested in the Napoleonic Wars and the decline of the French empire.
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
