THE GUN, C S Forester, UK pb 1967

This paperback is C S Forester's novel 'THE GUN' published by Pan Books in the UK in 1967.  Book is in reasonable condition. 186 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a chance for victory against the French - but first they must haul it across the mountains with nothing but a handful of donkeys and half-starved oxen. On its epic journey the cannon begins to gain almost mystical significance. For, with the gun, they are no longer a band of Spanish irregulars, they are an army able to take on the cream of Napoleon's troops.