Voices From the Napoleonic Wars
From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s
$33.57
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2015
Summary
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat.
Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more under arms. His new model army of volunteers and conscripts at epic battles such…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472136152 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472136152 |
| Author: | Jon E. Lewis |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 166mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Jon E. Lewis
JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.
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