Courage, Blood and Luck: Poems of Waterloo - Couverture rigide

Turner, Harry

 
9781783030149: Courage, Blood and Luck: Poems of Waterloo
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1783030143 ISBN 13 : 9781783030149
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2014

Synopsis

At about 11:30 on a Sunday morning in 1815, a few shots rang out as the curtain-raiser to one of Europe's most titanic military clashes. By late afternoon, at the close of the Battle of Waterloo, nearly 40,000 men lay dead or wounded. Until that day, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte seemed almost invincible. Indeed, by mid-afternoon, victory for the French seemed a distinct possibility. But the Allied army, led by the Duke of Wellington and ably assisted by Marshal Blucher, finally delivered a fatal blow that not only defeated the French forces but destroyed for ever Napoleon's dreams of conquest and glory, in which he would stand astride Europe like a colossus. Events that day confirmed the Duke of Wellington as a military genius and Blucher as an eccentric but loyal ally. For the British, the Battle of Waterloo was one of our greatest ever victories and the story of that extraordinary day,.

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À propos de l'auteur

Harry Turner was born in 1935 and served as a Second Lieutenant in the First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (The Diehards) from 1953 to 1955. He was Managing Director of Television South West from 1985 to 1992 and a director of ITN Independent Television News from 1987 to 1992. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and author of ten previous books including: With the Utmost Possible Dispatch: Poems of Nelson's Navy (Spellmount Publishers) Against All Hazards: Poems of the Peninsular War (Spellmount Publishers) Wrapped in Whirlwinds: Poems of the Crimean War (Spellmount Publishers) A Short History of the Middlesex Regiment (Brampton Press)

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783030143
ISBN 13 
9781783030149
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
96
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