Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
by Knight, Roger
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 184614177X
- ISBN 13
- 9781846141775
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About This Item
Allen Lane, 2013. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 160mm x 240mm. Minimal wear to jacket. No tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. 720pp Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeatFor more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower?This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers. The intelligence war was also central; but no participants were more important, Knight argues, than the bankers and international traders of the City of London, without whom the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field..
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- Bookseller
- Lectioz Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
- Author
- Knight, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 184614177X
- ISBN 13
- 9781846141775
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 160mm x 240mm
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