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The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.… (altro)
Fiction, Historical fiction, 17th century, Spain and Low Countries, Adventure, Captain Alatriste series, Book 3, During the Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence (1566–1648), The siege of Breda, The Spanish King Philip IV and his Holy War against Dutch heretics in the Low Countries, 1625, Alatriste takes part in the battles and siege of the fortified city of Breda, First published, under the title: "El sol de Breda", by Editorial Alfaguara, Madrid, 1998, 254 pp., First Italian edition, under the title: "Il sole di Breda", Salani, Firenze, 2002, translated by Roberta Bovaia, 229 pp., First US edition, under the title: "The Sun Over Breda", G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2007, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, 273 pp. ( )
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For Jean Schalekamp, damned heretic, translator, and friend
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'Pon my oath, the canals of these Dutch are damp on autumn mornings.
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And nine years later, in Madrid, standing before Diego Velazquez's panorama, it seemed that I could again hear the drum and that I was watching, amid the forts and smoking trenches in the distance, near Breda, the slow advance of the old, implacable squads, the pikes and standards of what was the last and best infantry in the world: despised, cruel, arrogant Spaniards disciplined only when under fire, who suffered everything in any assault but would allow no man to raise his voice to them.
The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.
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