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Original Title:	El sol de Breda ISBN13 9788420483122
Edition Language:	Spanish
Series:	Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste #3
Characters:	Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, Íñigo Balboa y Aguirre, Diego Velázquez, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Carmelo Bragado, Angelica de Alquezar, Curro Garrote, Sebastian Copons, Jaime Correas
Setting:	Oudkerk, Breda(Netherlands)

El sol de Breda (Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste #3) Paperback | Pages: 254 pages

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Title	:	El sol de Breda (Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste #3)
Author	:	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2000 by Alfaguara (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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El sol de Breda escenifica las batallas y el asedio de la ciudad de Breda en 1625 por los Tercios españoles en Flandes. El joven vasco Íñigo de Balboa es el narrador, como siempre, pero ahora adquiere en este relato un papel más protagonista: es mochilero del tercio viejo de Cartagena, donde sirve de ayudante a su amo el capitán Alatriste, y empuña por primera vez las armas en el combate. Íñigo será, en esta aventura, testigo del sometimiento de la ciudad por las tropas españolas, y describirá años más tarde al pintor Diego Velázquez, para que los inmortalice en un famoso cuadro, los rostros de los participantes en la batalla: el general Ambrosio Spínola, un respetado guerrero con dotes de político, que abortará el conato de un motín de las tropas, hartas de pelear sin que vean recompensados sus esfuerzos con una paga que nunca llega, y que el general les adelantará de sus acaudaladas arcas o el maestre de campo Pedro de la Daga, despreciativo con sus tropas hasta la crueldad, o el dubitativo capitán Carmelo Bragado y el valiente soldado Sebastián Copons, veteranos todos de las pasadas guerras en Nápoles y camaradas del capitán Alatriste.

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This is a good book, which tells about day-to-day life of a soldier. It shows all the specter of their life like: cooking, women, holding defense, conflicts with commend and other. Its interesting, because mostly we read about wars like historical facts, which look like statistics rather than reality, and this book is showing a life of soldier who is a patriot even though he doesnt understand what is he doing so far from home and why is he killing other people. Like in the previous books author

Summer book in the vein of the Three Musketeers. I read Perez-Reverte's Purity of Blood and enjoyed it very much.

"He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about the act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the breathing of his adversary, nor reads the fear, courage, or indifference in his eyes. He who kills from afar tests neither his arm, his heart, or his conscience, nor does he create ghosts that will later haunt him every single night for the rest of his life. He who kills from afar is a knave who

I'm not as fond of the Captain Alatriste novels as I am of Perez-Reverte's other work. In fact, as I was reading this one, I was telling myself that I'd just skip the next one. Then I got to the ending, and the magnificent epilogue, which put it all in perspective.I love Perez-Reverte's erudition, the way he makes the past relevant. I enjoy his melancholy too, because he wraps it in tradition, and makes it seem not aberration, but a kind of strong national character.I can't say more about this

My favorite so far in the Captain Alatriste series. And a serious competition to Bernard Cornwell in his field of expertise of historical novels with great battle descriptions.The first two books in the Alatriste epic were set in Madrid at the beginning of 17 century, and were a mix of swashbuckling and cultural (literature, poetry, dramaturgy) references. The Sun Over Breda discards most of the "artist cafe" distractions in order to focus on the military campaign of Spain and its Catholic

With the third book in the Captain Alatriste series Perez-Reverte adds great art to the poetry and literature that flows through these books - and improves on them. A painting by Velazquez is the detail which constantly reappears in this story. In the background of the painting, but the foreground of the story, we have the daunting figure of Alatriste (portrayed at one remove, as always through the eyes of his companion, the boy Iñigo) channeling the religious intolerance, racism, intolerance of

I was already very fond of Captain Alatriste and Purity of Blood before reading this book, and at first, was surprised by how different this book felt. It is very different, both in subject and in tone, than the prior two novels, but that is not necessarily bad. This book isn't really about the swashbuckling, larger-than-life hero of Alatriste, but more about how even larger-than-life heroes can be swallowed by engines of society (in this case, being a war) and made to play their role.