Author: Dieudonné Adrien Paul F.C.H. baron Thiébault
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The memoirs of baron Thiébault, tr. and condensed by A.J. Butler
Author: Dieudonné Adrien Paul F.C.H. baron Thiébault
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The memoirs of baron Thiébault, tr. and condensed by A.J. Butler
Author: Dieudonné Adrien Paul F.C.H. baron Thiébault
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Robert Asprey
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786725397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786725397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.
Dead Men Telling Tales
Author: Matilda Greig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
Gabriele von Bülow, a memoir [by A.G.T. von Sydow] tr. by C. Nordlinger
Author: Anna Gabriele T. von Sydow
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Catalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London
Author: London Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Armorial of Jersey
Author: James Bertrand Payne
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5881622669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the medi?val antiquities of the island
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5881622669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the medi?val antiquities of the island
The fable of the Bees
Author: Bernard de Mandeville
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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