Description: BRITAIN AGAINST NAPOLEON CAROLA OMAN FABER & FABER 1942 Second impression. 21 x 14 cm. 372 pp. HB/DJ “... Miss Carola Oman's fascinating book is a revelation.... It tells us how people in Britain felt and thought and acted during the War which began in a winter week of 1793, after Louis XVI had been guillotined in Paris, and lasted—with two brief intervals—until the total defeat of a Dictator of Europe at Waterloo. Her outline of actual history is ably given. But the charm and interest of her book I reside in the thousand significant trivialities. . . . Her book is fascinating because of its period colour, and the endless minutiae that it supplies—what people between 1793 and 1815 said, read, wore, ate, diverted themselves with, gossiped about . . . “ (From the dust jacket). CONTENTS Declaration of War, February 1793 Peace Negotiation Frigates and Fencibles The Experimental Peace East India Reflections England Expects The Map of Europe Roly-Poly Square 'He's Falling! He's Falling!' ' Great and Glorious Victory' General Bonaparte Index BRITAIN AGAINST NAPOLEON CAROLA OMAN FABER & FABER 1942 Second impression. “... Miss Carola Oman's fascinating book is a revelation.... It tells us how people in Britain felt and thought and acted during the War which began in a winter week of 1793, after Louis XVI had been guillotined in Paris, and lasted—with two brief intervals—until the total defeat of a Dictator of Europe at Waterloo. Her outline of actual history is ably given. But the charm and interest of her book reside in the thousand significant trivialities. . . . Her book is fascinating because of its period colour, and the endless minutiae that it supplies—what people between 1793 and 1815 said, read, wore, ate, diverted themselves with, gossiped about . . . “ (From the dust jacket). CONTENTS Declaration of War, February 1793 Peace Negotiation Frigates and Fencibles The Experimental Peace East India Reflections England Expects The Map of Europe Roly-Poly Square 'He's Falling! He's Falling!' ' Great and Glorious Victory' General Bonaparte Index 21 x 14 cm. 372 pp. Very good + condition, dust jacket tanned on the spine, chipped along the top and bottom edge (now in protective cover.). Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, pages slightly age toned but otherwise clean an dtidy Get images that make Supersized seem small. THE simple solution for eBay sellers.
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Author: C Oman
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Year Printed: 1942
