Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, renowned author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels, creator of the series about Captain Diego Alatriste, winner of the most prestigious literary awards. This collection includes his military-historical works - authentic (or true in the deepest sense) narratives about what war does to people. In the novel “Hussar,” a young second lieutenant spends his entire life 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, which was 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.