I hope that there are sections of The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour that readers can "hear" as they turn the pages, and particularly those that detail some of the French Napoleonic army's music. Singing and band music were an integral part of army life, so here we have some of the tunes, the songs, the drum and trumpet calls that would have … [Read more...] about Waterloo – Marianne Tambour and the Music of Battle
Spanish Civil War – the Costa Blanca
Jávea (Xàbia), on Spain's Costa Blanca, has the distinction of being one of the last places to be occupied by Franco's fascists during the final days of the that country's Civil War (1936-1939). But it had seen action much earlier too. Jávea, then just a small fishing village on the Mediterranean coast, was in Republican territory and an … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – the Costa Blanca