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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite of the series, although it takes greater advantage than the others of the author's background as a war correspondent. No, the plot is decidedly less suspenseful in this one. All the excitement is contained within battle scenes (the entire plot is set amidst the Spanish tercios in a 1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43729037">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[We follow Captain Alatriste and Inigo to the battlefields of Spanish Netherlands as Catholic Spain tries to kill some piety and loyalty into the Protestant rebels.  <br/><br/>With less of a plot then the earlier books, it mostly revolves around several battles.  Nonetheless, I enjoyed the portrait...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63115139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Arturo Pérez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globe with his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold four and a half million copies to date in the Spanish-speaking world, the series has made Pérez-Reverte a literary superstar and his fictional seventeenth-century mercenary a national icon. And the appeal of Pérez-Reverte's adventurer and his exploits continues to grow, as evidenced by the extraordinary reception for the first two translated volumes in the series-<em>Captain Alatriste</em> and <em>Purity of Blood</em>. <br/><br/> And now, in <em>The Sun over Breda</em>, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda. Fifteen-year-old Íñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, of mutiny and wartime honor. And, back in Spain, Alatriste's nemesis Luis de Alquézar grows more powerful, as Íñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in the series of the Captain Alatriste translated from the Spanish original. The good captain is a 17th century Spanish soldier and mercenary who has served in campaigns allover Europe. In this installment, he is part of an army sent to the Low Countries by King Phillip IV, a cahtolic defend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31510095">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[Me gustó mucho, aunque es dificil de leer como persone cuya idioma nativa no es el castellano.  Pero vale el esfuerzo. Las imagenes de la guerra - barbaridad, crueldad, valor, camaraderia - recuerdan Sassoon u Owen en otros tiempos.  Ser escrito en forma de episodios cortos me parece bien, no moles...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57976233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Sun Over Breda (Adventures of Captain Alatriste #3)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this series of books.  The battle scenes were very intense.  I am a little sad that the Captain and Inigo are growing apart.  I also missed the evil Angelica.  Only showing up as a note late in the book, is just not enough.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perez Reverte accomplishes a vivid story of medieval Spain through his Capt. Alatriste and his page, Inighio. It was interesting to read the history of the religious wars in the Netherlands and Flanders from the Spanish point of view. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love how Perez-Reverte writes and I love the spanishness of his books, I just didn't like the story.  It was a good story - how horrible war was but not my kind of story.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Follows the adventures of Captain Alatriste while enlisted in war, during the Siege of Breda. Not my favorite of the books, but still very entertaining.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though more battle heavy than I usually like, the depictions of 17th century warfare and the prose are breathtaking.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this series.  I like Pérez-Reverte's writing style.  But this one had no overarching plot to tie it together.  Inigo Balboa chronicles the war in Flanders - and that's it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[100 pages in I realized I read it before but had not put it on my list of read books.<br/>I'll skill ahead to Captain Alatriste #4]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Perez-Reverte, and especially the Captain Alatriste stories.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book because I found it at a used book store and it was cheap and because I loved Perez-Reverte's _Queen of the South_. So I tried this installment of the &quot;Captain Alatriste&quot; series. Written in a 17th century style and based on the Spanish war quests in Northern Europe, I did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34967923">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In some ways I think this is the weakest of the Captain Alatraiste books so far.  While I enjoyed the atmosphere created in this book, this one does not move the over all arch of the characters as much as the first two books without their nemesis working in the background against them.  I'll be inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27482597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tercera parte de Las Aventuras del capitán Alatriste. Entretenida, bien documentada, bien trabada... Con estas novelas, Pérez Reverte parece querer emular a Alexandre Dumas. Y por el impacto mediático y popular que consigue, seguramente está teniendo éxito. Pero no es gran literatura, ni son su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The third of a series about Captain Alatriste, this one the famous battle of Breda in Holland.  The author has found that the actual Alatriste is probably one of the figures in Velasques' huge painting of &quot;The Surrender at Breda&quot; in the Prado.  (The Spanish won.) Perez-Reverte writes mostl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38213749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Captain Alatriste Book 4.  Darker and more gruesome than the previous three - less personal swashbuckling and more grim, grim battle.  But well told; I think anti-war books always work better than anti-war movies, because all the worst parts of war are also visually exciting.<br/><br/>And with a h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34268038">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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