The Hundred Days - Couverture souple

O'Brian, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393319792 ISBN 13 : 9780393319798

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

Synopsis

Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393319792
• ISBN 13: 9780393319798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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