Napoleon and Wellington
2001, 1st edition, 3rd printing. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #390961
ISBN: 0297646079
Physical description: 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330) and index. Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Comparative Chronology -- Introduction -- PART I -- THE ROAD TO WATERLOO -- ONE: 'A Fine Time for an Enterprising Young Man': -- 1769-1799 -- TWO: Apprenticeship at Arms: 1799-1805 -- THREE: A Near Miss: 1805-1808 -- FOUR: To Lie Like a Bulletin: 1808-1809 -- FIVE: First Recognition: 1809-1810 -- SIX: Will He? Won't He?: 1810-1811 -- SEVEN: Two Retreats, One Tragedy: 1812-1813 -- EIGHT: 'Napoleon Has Abdicated': 1813-1814 -- NINE: Evenings on Elba, Nights in Paris: 1814-1815 -- TEN: A Hundred-Day Dash for La Gloire: -- March-June 1815 -- PART II -- WATERLOO AND ITS AFTERMATH -- ELEVEN: 'Thank God, I Have Met Him!': 18 June 1815 -- TWELVE: Wellington Protects Napoleon (and His Own -- Reputation): June-July 1815 -- THIRTEEN: Shepherding the Scapegoats: 1815-1816 -- FOURTEEN: A Shrinking Colossus: 1817 -- 1821 -- FIFTEEN: Remembering with Advantages: 1822-1835 -- SIXTEEN: The War for Clio's Ear: 1836-1852 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Maps: -- The Peninsular War 1808-14 -- The Waterloo Campaign 15-18 June 1815 -- (based on a map by David Chandler) -- The Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815 -- (based on a map by David Chandler) -- Bibliography -- Index (compiled by Douglas Matthews). Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821 Military leadership; Wellington, Arthur Wellesley Duke of 1769-1852 Military leadership; British Army; French Army; Generals France; Biography; Command of troops; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Statesman Great Britain; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; France Kings and rulers.
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