Britain Against Napoleon
the organization of victory, 1793-1815
$59.33
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2014
Summary
For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How did Britain survive and eventually win a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak commanded many times the resources?
From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as ‘an authority … none of his rivals can match’ (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141038940 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141038942 |
| Author: | Roger Knight |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 538g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 34mm |
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A wonderfully disorienting read … for [Knight] the real heroes of the struggle against Napoleon are not Wellington or Nelson or Collingwood or Cochrane but the clerks and administrators and ‘silent men of business’ who put Britain’s armies in the field and kept her ships at sea and her allies in funds and ultimately won the war … there is scarcely a wasted sentence here, not a duff page, not a chapter … that does not bring you very close to the realities of a total war – David Crane * Spectator *
About The Author
Roger Knight
Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. The Pursuit of Victory- The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson won the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research.
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