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Author: B.H. Liddell Hart Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 1474626114 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
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'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military history's great originals' John Keegan, DAILY TELEGRAPH These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler's record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called 'an old bloated poltroon') and his later posting to Corfu. Most of all, Wheeler's account of the historic Battle of Waterloo - written before the muskets of battle had cooled - reveals him to be a master of lively anecdote and mischievous characterisation.
Author: B.H. Liddell Hart Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 1474626114 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
Book Description
'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military history's great originals' John Keegan, DAILY TELEGRAPH These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler's record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called 'an old bloated poltroon') and his later posting to Corfu. Most of all, Wheeler's account of the historic Battle of Waterloo - written before the muskets of battle had cooled - reveals him to be a master of lively anecdote and mischievous characterisation.
Author: William Wheeler Publisher: ISBN: 9780900075339 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 287
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Den engelske soldat William Wheeler gjorde tjeneste i 51st - som senere blev til 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, og deltog bl.a. i Walcheren Expeditionen, i Peninsular Campaign, den lange udmattende krigsførelse i Spanien, og Waterloo Felttoget i 1815, og bagefter også i den Græske Frihedskrig. Hans breve og dagbøger er grundige og udførlige og gengiver stemningsbilleder, øjenvidneberetninger og øjenvidneskildringer af hans mange små og store oplevelser i felten og i hverdagen for soldater i den engelske hær i disse år.
Author: Peter Burke Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271021171 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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A new edition of this best-selling collection of essays by leading experts on historical methodology. Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history. Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history &"from below,&" the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.
Author: Edward Beasley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315517272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 608
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General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, Edward Beasley asks how the conventional depictions of the man as a peacemaker in England and a warmonger in Asia can be reconciled. Employing deep archival research and close readings of Napier's published books (ignored by prior scholars), this well-written volume demonstrates that Napier was a liberal imperialist who believed that if freedom was right for the people of England it was right for the people of Sind -- even if "freedom" had to be imposed by military force. Napier also confronted the messy aftermath of Western conquest, carrying out nation-building with mixed success, trying to end the honour killing of women, and eventually discovering the limits of imperial interference.
Author: John J. Hennessy Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807125779 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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“You will find me very much changed in everything but outside appearance when I come home,” Corporal Thomas H. Mann (1843–1916) warned his parents toward the end of the Civil War. A native of North Wrentham (now Norfolk), Massachusetts, Mann was a member of Company I of the Eighteenth Massachusetts regiment—part of the heralded Army of the Potomac—and saw action in many of the most pivotal and bloody battles of the war, including Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. In his memoir, written in the late nineteenth century and discovered by his grandsons among family papers a century later, Mann offers a riveting account of his battlefield experiences and paints a vivid portrait of a young man coming of age through a gauntlet of horror and suffering. Mann was highly literate, well read, perceptive, and witty—he was headed for Harvard before the war altered his course—and his memoir is an unusually eloquent account of the impact of war in all its forms. Drawing heavily on his wartime letters and on the recollections of his comrades, Mann colorfully reconstructs his wartime travels and trials from his enlistment to his capture at the Wilderness—the nightmare of the battlefield, the particulars of camp life, southern civilians struggling amidst shortage and destruction, freed slaves flocking to the army by the hundreds. With a keen editorial eye, John J. Hennessy delicately blends Mann’s various writings into a cohesive, captivating narrative. Possessing an acute political and social awareness, Mann reveals himself to be the classic example of a conservative patriot. He rails against many of his government’s policies—including emancipation, confiscation, and war on civilians—but he loves his country and fights desperately to preserve it. He enters the war vigorous, enthusiastic, wide-eyed, and determined and leaves it skeptical and broken down. Nonetheless, he is proud of his participation. Mixing postwar memory and reflection with the immediacy of wartime letters, Fighting with the Eighteenth Massachusetts is a historiographical rarity: memoir interwoven closely with, and supported by, wartime documents. The result is a poignant chronicle of a remarkable young man during America’s most troubled time.
Author: Max Hastings Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195205286 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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This colleciton of anecdotes is principally concerned with American and British conflicts. Hastings has sought stories that illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in the barracks.
Author: C. Kennedy Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137316535 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 491
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The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.
Author: B.H. Liddell Hart
Author: B.H. Liddell Hart
Author: William Wheeler
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Author: William Wheeler
Author: William Wheeler
Author: Peter Burke
Author: Edward Beasley
Author: John J. Hennessy
Author: Max Hastings
Author: C. Kennedy