MAY CONTAIN MARKUP

By C. S. Forester

From chapter 1: “A DEFEATED ARMY was falling back through the mountains from Espinosa. Such was its condition that an ignorant observer would find it easier to guess that it had, been defeated than that it had been an army. The twenty thousand men of whom it was composed were strung out along twenty miles of road; its sick and its dead littered the edges of the road for a hundred miles to the rear. At the head came such of the cavalry as were fortunate enough still to have horses to ride; they felt safer there than in their proper place covering the retreat. Next came the infantry, in groups, in herds, or in ones and twos.”

London. MICHAEL JOSEPH. ND. 207p.