Voices From The Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo To Salamanca 14 Eyewitness Accounts Of A Soldier&Apos S Life In Early 1800S Jon E Lewis Robinson Αγγλικά

Voices From The Napoleonic Wars Reveals In Telling Detail Harsh Lives Of Soldiers At Turn Eighteenth Century And Early Years Nineteenth - Poor Food Brutal Discipline They Endured Along With Forced Marches Bloody Hand-To-Hand Combat Contemporaries Were Mesmerised By Napoleon Good Reason: 1812 He Had An Unprecedented Million Men More Under Arms His New Model Army Volunteers Conscripts Epic Battles Such As Austerlitz Salamanca Borodino Jena Course Waterloo Marked Beginning Modern Warfare Road To Sommes Stalingrad Citizen-In-Arms Napoleon\ S Grande Armée Other Armies Time Gave Rise A Distinct Body Soldiers\ Personal Memoirs Accounts That Jon E Lewis Has Selected These Well Letters Diaries Include Those Rifleman Harris Fighting Peninsular Captain Alexander Cavalie Mercer Royal Horse Artillery Cover Land Campaigns French Revolutionary (1739-1802) (1803-1815) War (1812-1815) North America This Was Age Cavalry Charges Horse-Drawn Muskets Sabres Bayonets It Era Which Inspirational Leadership Patriotic Common Cause Counted For Much Close Quarters On Chaotic Battlefields Who Wrote Directly Involved Sweeping Climactic Set Europe Alight Followed Alongside Recollections Ferocity Hard-Fought Are Equally Details Soldier\ Daily Life Short Rations Searing Heat Iberian Summer Bitter Cold Russian Winter Debilitating Illnesses Crippling Wounds Looting Lash But Also Compensations Hard-Won Comradeship Face Ever-Present Death Collectively Give Us Most Vivid Picture 200 Ago Evocative Language Knew First Hand Officers British American Let Know Exactly What Like Be Infantryman Cavalryman Artilleryman Σελίδες: 512 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0409 Διαστάσεις: 16 6X16 6Cm