The Mammoth Book of Soldiers at War: Firsthand Accounts of Warfare from the Age of Napoleon - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786708336 ISBN 13: 9780786708338

Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2001

Synopsis

This is the real soldier's view of the battles and campaigns that set Europe and America alight at the turn of the 18th Century. Includes 14 eyewitness accounts of the battles, the privations and the adventure of armed service during the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Read the true story taken from memoirs, letters and diaries
by characters such as Rifleman Harris in the Peninsular Wars, and Captain Cavalie Mercer at Waterloo.

About this title

Book Description:

Essential reading for all fans of Sharpe, Flashman and Napoleonic adventure

Synopsis:

Garnered from the memoirs, letters, and diaries of common soldiers as well as officers, this vivid and gripping volume of eyewitness history offers firsthand accounts of the engagements that bloodied battlefields in Europe and America during the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. A compelling chronicle, it marches through the more than two decades of battles and campaigns in which the brilliant and charismatic general Napoleon reinvented warfare. From Austerlitz to Moscow, from New Orleans to Salamanca, here are the true-life stories behind history-making events that have become the stuff of some of the world's most popular novels and films. Here are the famous hussars and artillery, the musket and sword, the patriotic fervor and paralyzing fear, heroic deeds and tactical disasters. Here, too, are detailed views of the ordinary soldier's daily life: the short rations, the long marches in the hot Iberian summer and numbing Russian winter, the painful coping illness and wounds, the lashings, the amours, and the always close companionship of danger and death. Vibrantly, vitally, here is history at its most intimate and most thrilling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786708336
• ISBN 13: 9780786708338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Lewis Jon E.