A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 "Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and atmosphere."--The Wall Street Journal When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England's wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corruna stands out as a humiliation: a once-proud army forced to retreat, civilized...