Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, the famous author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels, the creator of the series about Captain Diego Alatriste, the winner of the most prestigious literary awards. This collection includes his military-historical works genuine (or truthful in the deepest sense) stories about what war does to people. In the novel “Hussar”, the young lieutenant lives his whole life to the bottom in one attack. In Shadow of the Eagle, a Spanish battalion in Napoleon's army tries to surrender to the Russians, but something goes wrong. "Cape Trafalgar" - chronicles the largest naval battle of the Napoleonic wars between the Spanish-French fleet and the British under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson Finally, The Day of Wrath is a novel about the Madrid uprising of May 2, 1808, ruthlessly suppressed by the French and subsequently immortalized by Francisco Goya. In every text here, History breathes, fights, bleeds and remains to live for centuries.