Went the day well? : witnessing Waterloo

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Label

Went the day well? : witnessing Waterloo

Title remainder

witnessing Waterloo

Statement of responsibility

David Crane

Creator

• Crane, David, 1942-

Subject

• Belgium -- Waterloo
• England
• England -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Sources
• England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
• History
• Military history
• Personal narratives -- British
• Social aspects
• Social history
• Sources
• 1800 - 1899
• War and society -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Waterloo, Battle of (Belgium : 1815)
• Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Personal narratives, British
• Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Social aspects -- England -- Sources
• War and society

Genre

• Military history
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives, British
• Sources
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"The panoramic story of Waterloo, from its causes to its aftermath, told through uniquely interwoven narratives drawn from the diaries, letters, reminiscences, and great novels of participants and witnesses--published in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle. With Bonaparte's escape from Elba in February 1815, the world was jolted from the profound peace it had experienced for eleven months back into the frenzied panic of a war it believed had ended. David Crane captures the mixture of excitement and fear that gripped England in the final days of a war that opened up complex divisions in its society--from Liverpool merchants who celebrated the end of hostilities with America and stood allied against another war, to the children of the Romantic Age who felt torn between their own patriotism and a lingering hero-worship that no crime of Napoleon's could eradicate. And he gives us an unprecedented, revelatory hour-by-hour account of the day of the battle. Focusing as much upon the boys and men torn from their farms and flocks as on the aristocratic families who provided Wellington with his officers, Went the Day Well? is a remarkable portrait of an entire nation engaged in a battle that changed the history of our world"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.2/742

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DC241.5

LC item number

.C73 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography