Author: Robert Wilson (Sir)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events, During Mission and Employment with the European Armies in the Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814, from the Invasion of Russia to the Capture of Paris
Author: Robert Wilson (Sir)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events
Author: Sir Robert WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events
Author: Sir Robert WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events, During Mission and Employment with the European Armies in the Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814, from the Invasion of Russia to the Capture of Paris
Author: Robert Wilson (Sir)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Private Diary Of Travels, Personal Services, And Public Events
Author: Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781012480394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
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Citizen Emperor
Author: Philip DwyerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030016243X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Traces Napoleon's rise to power, early mistakes, and military campaigns, while considering the emperor's darker side and the lengths to which he went to establish himself as a legitimate ruler.
Radetzky
Author: Alan SkedPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. As Chief of Staff to the allied coalition of 1813-14, Radetzky determined the shape of the most decisive campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars by creating the strategy that defeated the Corsican in Germany and then France. Neither Russia nor Prussia had been able to overcome Napoleon in battle and it took the brilliant diplomacy of Metternich and the military genius of Radetzky to ensure victory over the Emperor. In short, the Austrian contribution decisively tipped the balance against Napoleon - a fact which has always been overlooked by historians. It was Radetzky, too, at the age of eighty-two, who defeated the Italians in 1848 and 1849 and thus saved Europe once again from the prospect of international war and revolution. The wars Radetzky fought - and won - throughout his extensive military career were of the greatest possible significance in European history, yet today, he is almost forgotten - remembered only in the music of the Radetzky March, dedicated to him by Johann Strauss the elder. In this, the first biography of Radetzky to be published in English, Alan Sked paints a vivid picture of an exceptional, yet neglected commander of genius in a book which will be fascinating reading for enthusiasts of military and modern European history.
1812
Author: Paul Britten AustenPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848327048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
More than a third of a million men set out on that midsummer day of 1812: none can have imagined the terrors and hardships to come. They would be lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the decisive battle Napoleon sought; and by the time they reached the city their numbers would already have dwindled by more than a third. One of the greatest disasters in military history was in the making. The fruit of more than twenty years of research, this superbly crafted work skilfully blends the memoirs and diaries of more than a hundred eyewitnesses, all of whom took part in the Grand Armys doomed march to Moscow, to reveal the inside story of this landmark military campaign. The result is a uniquely authentic account in which the reader sees and experiences the campaign through the eyes of participants at each stage of the advance in enthralling day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail.
Edwards's Military Catalogue
Author: Francis Edwards (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
In the Land of the Romanovs
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740574
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.