Author: R.F. Delderfield
Publisher: McBooks Press
Keywords: military, fiction, classics, gascony, men, seven
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0935526978
ISBN-13: 9780935526974

Comrades and heroes, the seven warriors slog through the swirl and tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, fighting for their lives across Europe, until they confront their destiny at Waterloo. This stirring saga is drawn from true stories left behind by the soldiers of the First Empire, a dramatic tale of triumph and defeat.

Author: Martin Calder
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: france, south, discovering, gascony, summer
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1857885066
ISBN-13: 9781857885064

Authors:Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls,
Publisher: Cadogan Guides
Keywords: amp, guides, cadogan, regional, toulouse, pyrenees, gascony, country
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1860113605
ISBN-13: 9781860113604

Cadogan’s stunning guide to Gascony and the Pyrenees takes you deep into a fascinating region that is home to both Gascons and Basques. This is a place for lazy touring and with Cadogan as your guide, you’ll be able to meander through the beautiful scenery and find the perfect village restaurant where madame will cook you up a hearty plate of game or duck that Parisians would die for. Explore Europe’s biggest forest, a vast flat carpet of pines planted in the time of Napoleon III, in the Landes or relax in the department of the Gers, which fits all the archetypal images of southwest Fran

Author: Richard Barber
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, dordogne, gascony, guide
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-06-26
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639270
ISBN-13: 9781900639279

The corner of south-west France comprising Gascony and the Dordogne is the quintessence of provincial France. Many will be content to enjoy the douceur de vivre, the good food and the unspoiled countryside, but for those who are interested in the past this is rich terrain. Much of England’s history between 1154 and 1453 was bound up with events in the region, as the French lands of Henry II remorselessly slipped from the grasp of the English kings. This is the land of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Gaston Phebus, the scene of Richard I’s death, and of the Black Prince’s triumphs an