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The Gun

Categorie	Wapens
Boeknummer	#329034-ZA11
Titel	The Gun
Auteur	Forester, C.S.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Cassell & Co
Jaar van uitgave	2000
ISBN10	0304356956
ISBN13	9780304356959
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Abandoned by the retreating Spanish Army during the Peninsular war, the gun was an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, a foot in diameter at the muzzle, and weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a chance for victory against the French. But first they must take it a hundred miles across the mountains, with nothing but a handful of donkeys and half-starved oxen to haul it. First they must gather forces... On its epic journey over the mountains, the ornamented bronze cannon begins to gain almost mystical significance for the ever-swelling force that surrounds it. With the gun going on before them they are no longer a mere band of Spanish irregulars, they are an army. With the might of the gun on their side they can... (Lees verder) take on the cream of Napoleon's troops, they can march openly across the plains, they can batter great fortresses into subjection…
Pagina's	185
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 6,00

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