The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts
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Second volume of French eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Waterloo published in full for the first time in English.
Andrew S. Field Boeken
Andrew Field is een Britse auteur met een diepe fascinatie voor de Napoleontische oorlogen. Zijn uitgebreide reizen over de hele wereld stellen hem in staat om historische slagvelden nauwkeurig te onderzoeken, van de oudheid tot nu. Zijn werk richt zich op het herzien van Napoleons campagnes en het grondig bestuderen van Wellington's veldslagen. Voortbouwend op zijn militaire achtergrond en passie voor militaire geschiedenis, brengt Field een uniek perspectief in zijn analyses van strategie en gebeurtenissen.
Waterloo
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An original and thought-provoking new study of the Battle of Waterloo.
Grouchy's Waterloo
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Third volume in Andrew Field's acclaimed four volume study covering the French perspective of the Waterloo campaign
Talavera
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The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a bloody contest, the British and Spanish under Wellesley and Cuesta won a tactical victory over the French forces of Victor and Joseph Bonaparte. This graphic analysis reconstructs the action and questions assumptions about the event that have grown up.
Prelude to Waterloo Quatre Bras
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In-depth study of the critical battle that preceded Waterloo, based on French primary sources never published before in English. Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle this book questions previous assumptions and viewpoints.
Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist - New Translations and an Appreciation
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When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
Rich Like Me
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Fourth volume in Andrew Field s acclaimed four-volume account of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective
First English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Although of lowly birth, Cur ly rose though the ranks; he became hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, colonel at 38 and general at 40.
