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After nine years of war the British were beginning to turn the tide in the fight against Napoleon. This is the second in a trilogy of books on Britain's efforts in the Napoleonic Wars, sandwiched between Years of Endurance and The Age of Elegance.Tags
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Although it's the worst I've read by Disch, that doesn't meen it's bad. It is, however, silly. Very very very silly. I have no idea wether or not Disch used drugs when he wrote this book (or ever), but if he didn't, someone who did must have told him what to write. The characters sing and fly around, and the bad guys say they shouldn't sing and fly, and that's the plot.
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- Original title
- Years of victory 1802-1812
- Original publication date
- 1944
- People/Characters
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Epigraph
- "If we are true to ourselves we need not mind Bonaparte."
Nelson. - Dedication
- For Bernard Paget who like John Moore trained a British Army for Victory.
- First words
- I wrote The Years of Endurance - the story of how England survived a flood which overwhelmed Europe - when she was again alone, withstanding a worse and greater flood.
Preface.
The summer of 1802 saw England relaxing in the sunshine of the Amiens agreement.
Chapter one. Glimpse of a grand nation. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Presently the lids thundered down on the mail-bags and the waiting horses pawed the ground, the guards sounded their horns, and the news of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo went radiating outwards down a dozen great trunk roads, through cheering towns and villages where every heart leapt for an instant in the glow of a single comon pride.
- Original language
- English UK
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.2 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean
- LCC
- DA535 .B78 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485-
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 13
