The Sun Over Breda (Captain
Alatriste (Plume Books)) by Arturo
Perez-Reverte
Fascinating Stuff
Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s internationally bestselling series,
the saga of the swordsman-for-hire Captain Alatriste, continues in The Sun
Over Breda. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s
aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes,
mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena
regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s
nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo’s mysterious
friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the
exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the
legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.
Personal Review: The Sun Over Breda (Captain Alatriste (Plume
Books)) by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Great stuff for Thirty Year's War buffs, and you know who you are, men:
you were thought strange in school, because you knew about Breitenfeld,
and Lutzen, and all that. Tells the story vividly of what it must have been
like inside one of those formidable *tercios*, bristling with spikes, as they
marched towards the Dutchmen causing the weaker spirits to flee.
The Thirty Years War, insofar as it was ever chronicled at all by Americans
and Brits, has generally been painted rather Orange, and told from the
viewpoint of a Protestant struggle against the faceless Myrmidions of
Spain, foregrounding William of Nassau and Gustavus Adolphus and other
Protestant captains. Captain Altatriste makes the other mob come alive.
They know perfectly well by the late 1630s that Spain has been bled white
and is about to go, as a world power, arse over tip into the dustbin of
history: but they fight on.
One in fine with Nineveh and Tyre. There's a lesson there somewhere.
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