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Tim Clayton:
Waterloo - Pasta blanda
1974, ISBN: 0430c1ee7d69be3a2482f7d1b18462e3
Pasta dura
New York U. S. A.: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket 1974. First US Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree NrFine 1st US Ed perf-bound in full brown cloth, sienna endpapers… Más…
New York U. S. A.: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket 1974. First US Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree NrFine 1st US Ed perf-bound in full brown cloth, sienna endpapers, unclipped illus dj has edgewear & few chips of 1" or less, maps + 23 illus; superclean remainder-- no names, not marked-in, underscored or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 487 pages; Tsar of all Russia during the tumultuous years when the European order was turned topsyturvy by Napoleon, Alexander I earned a reputation as an idealistic muddlehead among his contemporaries, such no-nonsense political realists as Metternich, Talleyrand and Castlereagh. It is a point of view largely shared by Palmer in this meticulously scholarly biography of a man whose vision always exceeded his grasp. Injected with a heady dose of liberal ideas by his grandmother, Catherine the Great, and his Swiss tutor La Harpe, Alexander dreamed of emancipating the serfs and giving Holy Russia a constitution. Ruler of the most autocratic and militaristic of states, Alexander wanted to bestow liberty on Poland (which had been partitioned off the map by his grandmother) and peace and brotherly love on all. When at the close of the Napoleonic wars Alexander presented the statesmen of Europe with the Holy Alliance which proposed to regulate international politics by the principles of Christian love, the diplomats were understandably embarrassed, uneasy and cynical. As he grew older Alexander became more and more mystically inclined; the grand projects with which he filled his reveries were stillborn. Russia remained administratively backward, repressive and unenlightened and his own popularity, once vast, dimmed. As Palmer puts it, "He was a holy ikon refusing to work its miracle." It is perhaps unfortunate that Palmer devotes so much of the book to the well-charted diplomatic and military maneuvers of the period without bothering to fully penetrate the irresolute, emotional, guilt-ridden but oddly likable character of Alexander I whose aborted liberal fancies were to have such far-reaching repercussions on Russian history. (Kirkus Reviews) ., Harper & Row, 1974, Paperback. New. The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for t<
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Tim Clayton:
Waterloo - libro nuevo
2014, ISBN: 0430c1ee7d69be3a2482f7d1b18462e3
'A fabulous story, superbly told' Max HastingsThe bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napo… Más…
'A fabulous story, superbly told' Max HastingsThe bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty.An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon., 2014<
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Waterloo - libro nuevo
2014, ISBN: 0430c1ee7d69be3a2482f7d1b18462e3
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberatio… Más…
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. , 2014<
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Clayton, Tim:
Waterloo - libro nuevo
2015, ISBN: 0430c1ee7d69be3a2482f7d1b18462e3
Taschenbuch, 704 S., Erschienen: 2015 Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny, Little, Brown Book Group
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