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Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo

Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo

Paperback

British HistoryNapoleonic Wars

ISBN10: 0307741893
ISBN13: 9780307741899
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 5 2016
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In these pages, acclaimed historian David Crane gives us an astonishing, intimate snapshot of the people and places surrounding the battle that changed the course of world history. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, husband and wife, Went the Day Well? offers a highly original view of Waterloo, showing how the battle was not only a military landmark, but also a cultural watershed that drew the line between the rural, reactionary age of the past and the urban, innovative era to come. Lyrically rendered in Crane's signature prose style, this essential account freeze-frames the ordinary men and women of 1815 who went about their business, attended lectures, worked in fields and factories--all on the cusp of a new, unforeseeable age.

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