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David Crane - Witnessing Waterloo, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Witnessing Waterloo

24 Hours, 48 Lives, a World Forever Changed

Av David Crane

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[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]‘Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best’ Spectator‘A book to die for’ Evening StandardFrom Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo.As Wellington’s rain-sodden army retreated towards an obscure valley called Waterloo, the men and women of Britain were still going to the theatre and science lectures, working in the fields and the factories, reading and writing books and sermons, painting their pictures and sitting in front of Lord Elgin’s marbles. David Crane’s stunning freeze-frame of Britain on this day of momentous change shifts hour by hour between Britain and Belgium. The Britain that fought Waterloo – its radicals and patriots, artisans and aristocrats, prisoners and poets – appears through the smoke of battle and the mythology of Waterloo in this magnificent and original tracing of the endless, overlapping connections between people’s lives.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-02-25
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 300 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007358380
  • Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
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David Crane's first book, ‘Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, ‘The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctic' was published, followed by ‘Men of War’, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. His ‘Empires of the Dead’ was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. Crane lives in north-west Scotland.

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‘Magnificent … by far the most enjoyable account of the battle I have ever encountered. Crane has had the brilliant idea of interweaving a fast, colourful narrative of the battle with the story of what was happening in Britain … it is a social and cultural panorama, taking in everything from murderers and vicars to portrait-painters and prize-fighters … [Featuring] countless beautifully observed moments … Crane has a superb eye for fascinating little nuggets’ Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail

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