Tim Clayton

This Dark Business

The Secret War Against Napoleon

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Praise for Trafalgar'A magnificent account of the battle itself, including adetailed analysis of the storm that might well have wiped out the British fleet after victory had been won, had it not been for superb seamanship' Guardian'A landmark book' ObserverPraise for Waterloo'The best book on the Battle . . . colourful and revealing' Saul David, Evening Standard 'Clayton makes the fog of war central to thenarrative; we are pitched into the chaos and din of Waterloo and, crucially, the three days of manoeuvring and fighting that preceded it. We experience itas Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary soldier would have done: a series of isolated,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4087-0864-4
EAN: 9781408708644
Produktnummer: 24043034
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.4 cm x D4.0 cm 739 g
Gewicht: 739

Über den Autor

Tim Clayton was educated at Cambridge University where he specialised in the graphic satire of James Gillray. He is the award winning and bestselling author of a number of books on naval and military history, including the winner of the 2008 Mountbatten Literary Award, Tars, and the critically acclaimed Trafalgar and Waterloo. Tim is also an Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He worked at the British Museum as co-curator of the exhibition Bonaparte and the British, which marked the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.