Charles Esdaile's The Peninsular War: A New History is an excellent survey of Peninsular War. Two things that set Esdaille apart from many of his contemporaries is that he relies upon Spanish sources and he focuses upon demythologizing the conflict. For instance, Esdaile notes that the Bonapartist regime was both reformist and repressive, whereas other narrative tend to stress one or the other. Two battle histories of the Peninsular War also stand out for explaining how battles in this context represented larger parts of the war: Guy Dempsey's Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War and Rory Muir's Salamanca, 1812. The guerrilla war in the Spanish Peninsula has also received a good deal of attention from scholars. One of the classics on this subject is Don W. Alexander's Rod of Iron: French Counterinsurgency Policy in Aragon during the Peninsular War. Similarly, The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain by John Tone examines the issue of success for a guerrilla insurgency. Both Tone and Alexander look at two provinces, but Michael Broers's Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and Their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions looks at the process of armed rebellion and counterinsurgency through the entire continent and South America.