The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts
- 176pages
- 7 heures de lecture
Second volume of French eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Waterloo published in full for the first time in English.
Andrew Field est un auteur britannique animé par une profonde fascination pour les guerres napoléoniennes. Ses nombreux voyages à travers le monde lui permettent d'explorer méticuleusement des champs de bataille historiques, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Ses recherches se concentrent sur la réévaluation des campagnes de Napoléon et sur l'étude approfondie des batailles de Wellington. Fort de son passé militaire et de sa passion pour l'histoire militaire, Field apporte une perspective unique à ses analyses de stratégie et d'événements.






Second volume of French eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Waterloo published in full for the first time in English.
An original and thought-provoking new study of the Battle of Waterloo.
Third volume in Andrew Field's acclaimed four volume study covering the French perspective of the Waterloo campaign
The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a bloody contest, the British and Spanish under Wellesley and Cuesta won a tactical victory over the French forces of Victor and Joseph Bonaparte. This graphic analysis reconstructs the action and questions assumptions about the event that have grown up.
In-depth study of the critical battle that preceded Waterloo, based on French primary sources never published before in English. Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle this book questions previous assumptions and viewpoints.
When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
Fourth volume in Andrew Field s acclaimed four-volume account of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective
First English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Although of lowly birth, Cur ly rose though the ranks; he became hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, colonel at 38 and general at 40.