ANTHONY HAYWARD asked Robert Brightwell:

I originally bought Flashman in the Peninsular through Amazon for my Kindle and loved it. I now live in Portugal , not far from Torres Vedras and would love to see these battle sites on maps. The Kindle version showed sketches and maps but when then I ordered the same book in Paperback version it arrived with no sketches or maps. Can you please advise me of the best way to get copies of those or similar maps?

Robert Brightwell Anthony, thanks for the question, which I confess has left me a bit puzzled, While I put maps in some of my books, I cannot recall putting any in Peninsula and I use the same file for both the e-book and the printed one. I have just had a rummage amongst various source books quoted in the historical notes and a few others on the peninsular conflict, but could not find any detailed maps of Torres Vedras forts in any of them. It is not often I direct people to Wikipedia, but the following page is perhaps a good source as it has a map showing the two lines and details on the preservation work and which sites are good to visit today. Hopefully, if you visit some of the sites, they will have more information and maps as a lot has been spent restoring some of the defences. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series and as I sit here looking out on freezing fog, I have to say that I envy you in Portugal!
Best wishes, Robert Brightwell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines_o...

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