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Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852 Volume 2
ISBN: 9780300232820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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110,62 zł |
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
ISBN: 9780300205480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny diplomat as well as lover, husband, and friend. Rory Muir's masterful new biography, the first of a two-volume set, is the fruit... A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo
The Duke of Well... |
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98,49 zł |
Inside Wellington's Peninsular Army: 1808-1814
ISBN: 9781473827615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The British army reached the apogee of its success in the war against Napoleon, and in particular in the famous campaigns in the Peninsula, while under Wellington's command. Yet many aspects of how it achieved its victories have been ignored. This book breaks new ground in a series of meticulous studies which reveal the hidden mechanisms that lie behind triumphs such as Salamanca and Vitoria. At the same time it places Wellington's campaigns in their strategic context and explains how he achieved his success. The principles underlying the organization of Wellington's army are uncovered in a...
The British army reached the apogee of its success in the war against Napoleon, and in particular in the famous campaigns in the Peninsula, while unde...
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138,34 zł |
Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
ISBN: 9780300082708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time, this dramatic book explores what actually happened in battle and how the participants' feelings and reactions influenced the outcome. Rory Muir focuses on the dynamics of combat in the age of Napoleon, enhancing his analysis with vivid accounts of those who were there--the frightened foot soldier, the general in command, the young cavalry officer whose boils made it...
What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the gener...
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110,67 zł |
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780300281071 / Miękka / 04-03-2025 / 432 str. Książka dostępna od: 04-03-2025 |
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64,00 zł |
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815
ISBN: 9780300197570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This account of the final years of Britain's long war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France places the conflict in a new--and wholly modern--perspective. Rory Muir looks beyond the purely military aspects of the struggle to show how the entire British nation played a part in the victory. His book provides a total assessment of how politicians, the press, the crown, civilians, soldiers, and commanders together defeated France.
Beginning in 1807 when all of continental Europe was under Napoleon's sway, the author traces the course of the war through the Spanish uprising of 1808, the... This account of the final years of Britain's long war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France places the conflict in a new--and wholly modern--per...
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193,67 zł |
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
ISBN: 9780300273311 / Miękka / 2023 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,37 zł |
Salamanca, 1812
ISBN: 9780300186741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) July 22, 1812. Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first advance, British forces under Wellington's command have spent the last four days maneuvering and retreating from the French army. Patient and cautious, Wellington is determined not to make a fatal mistake. He glimpses a moment of opportunity and grasps it, committing all of his troops to a sudden devastating attack. At the end of the day, the French army is broken, panic-stricken, and reeling; Wellington has achieved the finest victory of his brilliant military career.
This book examines in unprecedented detail the battle of... July 22, 1812. Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first advance, British forces under Wellington's command have spent the last four days maneuverin...
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276,01 zł |