Don Eugenio (Hardback)

A signed copy of the novel Don Eugenio by the Irish writer Máirtín Mac Cana. This is a great book about the Irish regiment of the Spanish Army fighting in the Thirty Years War. Highly Recommended, a great book and a great read. Description from the website: Don Eugenio takes the reader on an incredible journey through the rich Gaelic culture, philosophy and ancient wisdom of Ireland, told by a band of seventeenth century Irish warriors determined to fight or die in an epic drama set amidst the Thirty Years' War. At the start of June 1640, the French have mobilised three-quarters of the military in all of France. The objective is to totally annihilate the Spanish in a carefully planned assault to finish this godforsaken war once and for all. On route through Artois, journeying to Bethune, an army of sixty thousand, lead by three of the finest marshals that France has ever produced, discover a small force of fifteen hundred soldiers of the Irish regiment of the Spanish army holding the old town of Arras. In the war-torn battles that follow, the French marshals at first pay a high price for the sin of overconfidence. Like a completely unexpected bolt out of the blue, the Irish regiment under the command of one, Colonel Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill, put up a relentless defence against the huge French armies that surrounds them on all points of the compass. In the many battles, the French boldly fight for France, while the Irish, totally besieged and outnumbered fifty to one, fight for their lives.