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Napoleon and Wellington : The Battle of Waterloo - and the Great

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Publication Name
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication Year
2001
ISBN
9780297646075
Book Title
Napoleon and Wellington : the Battle of Waterloo-And the Great Comanders Who Fought It
Publisher
Unknown Publisher
Item Length
9.5 in
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Andrew Roberts
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Military / Napoleonic Wars, Political, Historical, Military
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Publisher
Unknown Publisher
ISBN-10
0297646079
ISBN-13
9780297646075
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30332744

Product Key Features

Book Title
Napoleon and Wellington : the Battle of Waterloo-And the Great Comanders Who Fought It
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Napoleonic Wars, Political, Historical, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Andrew Roberts
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2002-318198
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.2/74/0922 B
Synopsis
A dual biography in the manner of Alan Bullock's celebrated Hitler and Stalin of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated with each other., On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses. The constantly changing relationship between these two nineteenth-century giants forms the basis of Andrew Roberts' compelling study in pride, rivalry, propaganda, nostalgia, and posthumous revenge., On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to have an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents this revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsular War, praising his ruthlessness in private whilst publicly deriding him as a mere sepoy general. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington.
LC Classification Number
DC203.R68 2001

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