{"product_id":"kings-and-emperors-9781250081063","title":"Kings and Emperors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Great naval action and deep historical detail in the vein of O'Brian and Forester.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Dewey Lambdin's \u003ci\u003eKings and Emperors, \u003c\/i\u003eCaptain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS \u003ci\u003eSapphire, \u003c\/i\u003e slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones  Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Portugal and his march into Spain change everything, freeing \u003ci\u003eSapphire\u003c\/i\u003e to roam against the king's enemies once more \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs kings are overthrown and popular uprisings break out across Spain, Lewrie's right back in the action, ferrying weapons to arm Spanish patriots, scouting the impregnable fort of Ceuta, escorting the advance units of British expeditionary armies to aid the Spanish, and even going ashore to witness the first battles between Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon's best marshals, as the long Peninsular War that broke Imperial France begins to unfold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom C diz to La Coru a, Lewrie and \u003ci\u003eSapphire\u003c\/i\u003e will be there as history explodes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250081063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Dewey Lambdin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648570814620,"sku":"9781250081063","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a8378b86-4fff-4ec5-9426-f8d1c0f389b6.jpg?v=1603870416","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/kings-and-emperors-9781250081063","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}