Read By: Richard Brown

Abandoned by the retreating Spanish Army during the Peninsular war,
the gun was an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, a
foot in diameter at the muzzle, and weighing three tons. When a group
of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a
chance for victory against the French. But first they must take it a
hundred miles across the mountains, with nothing but a handful of donkeys
and half-starved oxen to haul it. First they must gather forces...On
its epic journey over the mountains, the ornamented bronze cannon begins
to gain almost mystical significance for the ever-swelling force that
surrounds it. With the gun going on before them they are no longer a
mere band of Spanish irregulars, they are an army. With the might of
the gun on their side they can take on the cream of Napoleon's troops,
they can march openly across the plains, they can batter great fortresses
into subjection...

The author of the popular Hornblower series writes on Napoleon's peninsular
war. This 1933 novel was the basis of the movie The Pride and the Passion
(Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Frank Sinatra).

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