Esta obra nos adentra en una de las mayores crisis de la Historia de Espana. Carlos Canales analiza como el conflicto arruino la economia y destruyo gran parte de las infraestructuras heredadas de la Ilustracion, pero tambien como vio la luz la Constituciuon Liberal de 1812, considerada el nacimiento de la Espana moderna.The Peninsular War (Spanish War of Independence) was a major conflict that took place in the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by an alliance of Spain, Portugal, and Britain against the French Empire. This book tries to inform about the main facts and battles of this war that is known as the beginnig of the modern Spain.