Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Story of William Siborne & Great Model of Waterloo - Hardcover

Hofschroer, Peter

 
9780571217687: Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Story of William Siborne & Great Model of Waterloo
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571217680 ISBN 13: 9780571217687
Verlag: Faber and Faber, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Peter Hofschröer tells the remarkable story of William Siborne, a Lieutenant in the British Army and expert in topography, who was commissioned to make a vast scale model of Waterloo, incorporating seventy-five thousand tin-lead soldiers and stretching over four hundred square feet. Buy why - at a time when celebrations of England's finest hour at Waterloo were so in vogue, and Wellington's fame was at its peak - did this exquisite model gain Siborne the enmity of the Duke and ultimately lead to his own ruin? If history is always written by the victor, never was this more true than Waterloo. Now, to correct a long injustice, Peter Hofschröer reveals the truth of one man's all-consuming and ruinous passion for historical accuracy. Peter Hofschröer is the author of the award-winning two-volume study 1815 - The Waterloo Campaign (Greenhill Books).

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Peter Hofschröer, a specialist in Napoleonic history, is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning two-volume study 1815 - The Waterloo Campaign (Greenhill Books). Find out more here.

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Verlag
Faber and Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571217680
ISBN 13 
9780571217687
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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