Fighting the British - French Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic WarsPevná vazba
Fighting the British - French Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic WarsPevná vazba The British army during the Napoleonic Wars is often studied using English sources and the British view of their…
Specifikacia Fighting the British - French Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic WarsPevná vazba
Fighting the British - French Eyewitness Accounts from the Napoleonic WarsPevná vazba
The British army during the Napoleonic Wars is often studied using English sources and the British view of their French opponents has been covered in exhaustive detail. This book, based on hundreds of letters, memoirs, and reports of French officers and soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, adds to the existing literature by exploring the British army from the French side of the battle line. However, the French view of the British has been less often studied and is frequently misunderstood.
Extensive quotes from the French soldiers who were there are complemented by detailed notes describing the context of the war and the career of the eyewitness. Each chapter looks at a specific campaign involving the French and the British. Throughout the emphasis is on the voices of the lower ranks, the conscripts and the noncommissioned and junior officers.
They describe in their own words the full