This book was published in 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd. Arturo Perez-Reverte the author was originally a war journalist and now he writes fiction full time, he has a number of excellent novels to his credit.
The era of glorious captains, glorious attacks and glorious booty was now long past, and the conflict had become a kind of long and tedious chess game in which strongholds were besieged, changed hands, and were besieged again, bravery often counting fore less than patience.
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