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The gun
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Política de Devoluciones. |
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| Thirteen feet long it was, and a foot in diameter at the muzzle. An eighteenpounder bronze gun, ornamented with blazonry and heraldic traceries... It weighed three tons... Abandoned by the Spanish Army as it retreated from the French during the Peninsular War, the gun fell into the hands of a Spanish guerrilla band. It was then that its great adventure began. It became the hero of the ever-swelling force of Spanish irregulars, as it brought them victory after victory - as it destroyed the cream of Napoleon''s troops and battered great fortresses into subjection... The Gun: A novel which ranks as one of C. S. Forester''s finest stories. It became a great film. And Sir Hugh Walpole has described it together with Death to the french (Forester'' other Peninsular War story) as '' His best works ... remarkable for their vividness... He writes like an eye-witness.  Ir al inicio |
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