A fascinating personal study of a trio of Wellington’s Intelligence officers whose behind-the-lines espionage helped to win the Peninsular War.

Espionage - or human intelligence - was even more important before the arrival of electronic eavesdropping, and at no time more so than during the Napoleonic Wars. In this eye-opening account of the secret war behind the battlefields, Mary McGrigor focuses on three of Wellington’s officers - Colquhoun Grant, Charles Somers Cocks and the military artists Arthur Leith Hay - to tell the exciting story of how the trio’s spying helped win the Peninsular War. It’s an intensely dramatic, sometimes tragic story involving violent death, hair’s breadth escapes, a love affair and death in battle. This is a fascinating book that no student of the Napoleonic wars should miss.

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Product Code:	23570
Author:	Mary McGrigor
Format:	272pp, b/w illustrations, maps, hb. Published Price £22.99
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