The Exploits of Baron De Marbot
Language: English
Published by Constable, 2000
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- The Exploits of Baron De Marbot
- Author
- De Marbot, Jean-Baptiste; Selected And Edited By C. J. Summerville
- Publisher
- Constable
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 009480110X
- ISBN 13
- 9780094801103
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 410 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.6 centimeters width by 21.2 centimeters height by 2.2 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Military
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As the story goes on, the tragic inevitability of impending French defeat adds gravitas to de Marbot's perky tales. The retreat from Moscow, through the Russian winter, is brilliantly told: "the way was strewn with dead and dying; our march slow and silent. We had often to halt and clear away from the horse's bits the icicles formed by their frozen breath." By the time we get to Waterloo the reader's sympathies are very much with de Marbot. "I cannot get over our defeat," he says of that last battle, with a metaphor both baffling and strangely expressive: "we manoeuvred like so many pumpkins." Summerville's selections, linked with brisk historical summaries, are excellent; he picks out the best and most thrilling material, and contextualises it neatly amongst the amazing events of the war. You finish reading the book having been--that dream of historical writers--both entertained and educated. --Adam Roberts
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