Trafalgar (Annotated)

Trafalgar, the opening volume of Benito Pérez Galdós's Episodios nacionales, recreates the 1805 naval catastrophe through the eyes of the young Gabriel de Araceli, whose personal awakening becomes inseparable from Spain's historical trauma. Blending documentary precision with vivid fictional testimony, Galdós transforms military defeat into a study of courage, illusion, class, and national conscio...