From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), 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 defeat.
For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe, and the British population lived in fear of French invasion. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and 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 of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, as the demands of the war remorselessly grew, the whole British population had to play its part. The intelligence war was also central. Yet no participants were more important, Roger Knight argues, than the bankers and traders of the City of London, without whose financing the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field.
The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole.
0 有用 Donald 2013-12-26 14:24:33
假期消遣类读物,适合业余历史爱好者及民科等。
1 有用 Die Katze 2016-11-10 21:30:11
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5 有用 壑舟 2016-03-18 22:28:26
这本书在一般被视为专题论文合集,学术性过头,叙事恰是最大弱点。还消遣类读物,笑死人。
1 有用 Die Katze 2016-11-10 21:30:11
適宜於充當假期休閒讀物
5 有用 壑舟 2016-03-18 22:28:26
这本书在一般被视为专题论文合集,学术性过头,叙事恰是最大弱点。还消遣类读物,笑死人。
0 有用 Donald 2013-12-26 14:24:33
假期消遣类读物,适合业余历史爱好者及民科等。