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Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, a World Forever Changed - Couverture souple

Crane, David

 
9780007358380: Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, a World Forever Changed
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0007358385 ISBN 13 : 9780007358380
Editeur : William Collins, 2016

Synopsis

[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]

‘Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best’ Spectator

‘A book to die for’ Evening Standard

From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo.

As Wellington’s rain-sodden army retreated towards an obscure valley called Waterloo, the men and women of Britain were still going to the theatre and science lectures, working in the fields and the factories, reading and writing books and sermons, painting their pictures and sitting in front of Lord Elgin’s marbles. David Crane’s stunning freeze-frame of Britain on this day of momentous change shifts hour by hour between Britain and Belgium. The Britain that fought Waterloo – its radicals and patriots, artisans and aristocrats, prisoners and poets – appears through the smoke of battle and the mythology of Waterloo in this magnificent and original tracing of the endless, overlapping connections between people’s lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Crane's first book, ‘Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, ‘The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctic' was published, followed by ‘Men of War’, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. His ‘Empires of the Dead’ was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in north-west Scotland.

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Éditeur
William Collins
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0007358385
ISBN 13 
9780007358380
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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