A Poem on the Battle of Waterloo

A Poem on the Battle of Waterloo
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Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : GENT:900000165388
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Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis A Poem on the Battle of Waterloo by : William Whitehead

The field of Waterloo; a poem

The field of Waterloo; a poem
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Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590890259
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Synopsis The field of Waterloo; a poem by : sir Walter Scott (bart.)

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9780486113609
ISBN-13 : 0486113604
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems by : Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet, including the long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," selections from The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook," more.

The Longest Afternoon

The Longest Afternoon
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780465039944
ISBN-13 : 0465039944
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Longest Afternoon by : Brendan Simms

From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.

Napoleon and English Romanticism

Napoleon and English Romanticism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0521473365
ISBN-13 : 9780521473361
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Napoleon and English Romanticism by : Simon Bainbridge

Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence on their thinking and writing, and a powerful symbolic and mythic figure whom they used to legitimize and discredit a wide range of political and aesthetic positions. In this first ever full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and of Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed analyses of specific texts with broader historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with the visual evidence of contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed, appropriated, and contested different Napoleons as a crucial part of their sustained and partisan engagement in the political and cultural debates of the day.

Finding Napoleon

Finding Napoleon
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9781647420178
ISBN-13 : 1647420172
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding Napoleon by : Margaret Rodenberg

“Rodenberg inventively uses Bonaparte’s own unfinished novel to tell the story of the despot’s rise to power, which she juxtaposes against the story of his last love affair. Told creatively and with excellent research!” —Stephanie Dray, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of America's First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette “Beautiful and poignant.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times best-selling author of The Queen’s Fortune With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s real attempt to write romantic fiction, Finding Napoleon: A Novel offers a fresh take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything—except his last love. A forgotten woman of history—the audacious Countess Albine—helps narrate their tale of intrigue, desire, and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together enslaved Africans, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition—as well as treachery within their own ranks—with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. Amid his passions and intrigues, Napoleon finishes his real novel Clisson that he started writing as a young man. Now it's a father's message to the young son whom his enemies took from him, but how can they get it to the boy? When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation. To succeed, Napoleon must learn whom to trust. To survive, Albine must decide whom to betray. This elegant, richly researched novel reveals the Napoleon history conceals and the Countess Albine history has forgotten.

The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo

The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo
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Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:400271561
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Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo by : Robert Southey

The Waterloo Roll Call

The Waterloo Roll Call
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Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590281510
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Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Waterloo Roll Call by : Charles Dalton

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
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Total Pages : 26
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10714004
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Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte by : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

Romanticism in the Shadow of War

Romanticism in the Shadow of War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781107071940
ISBN-13 : 1107071941
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Romanticism in the Shadow of War by : Jeffrey N. Cox

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.