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The Battle of Wagram
Gilles Lapouge
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Description for The Battle of Wagram
Paperback. A fascinating historical novel,..Lapouge is clearly a passionate historian. -The Times Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: FA; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
This intense yet panoramic novel is based on an actual episode during the battle of Wagram, in Austria, as it appears in the diary of one of Napoleons generals: two cavalry regiments that did their best to annihilate each other before the gates of Vienna in 1809 belonged to the Prince of SaxeTeschen, and on his orders fought on opposing sides. Re-baptized SaxeSalza in the novel, the Prince, on the eve of the battle, transfers his wife's young lover from his own unit to the other regiment, so that he may kill and be killed by his brothers-in-arms. But long ... Read more
This intense yet panoramic novel is based on an actual episode during the battle of Wagram, in Austria, as it appears in the diary of one of Napoleons generals: two cavalry regiments that did their best to annihilate each other before the gates of Vienna in 1809 belonged to the Prince of SaxeTeschen, and on his orders fought on opposing sides. Re-baptized SaxeSalza in the novel, the Prince, on the eve of the battle, transfers his wife's young lover from his own unit to the other regiment, so that he may kill and be killed by his brothers-in-arms. But long ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781561310135
SKU
V9781561310135
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Ref
99-15
About Gilles Lapouge
Gilles Lapouge is the author of numerous books--on Brazil, on piracy, on time, on the Spanish anarchists--in which history, anthropology, and an unusual poetic element seem to be happily fused.
Reviews for The Battle of Wagram
Lapouge's literary ambition is on that level[of Tolstoy]-and the book itself sustains that claim.
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Academie Francaise
Le Monde
The reader is an innocent abroad, lured into the delightful pages of a story that is all ideas and an idea that is all story.
Sunday Times, (London)
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Academie Francaise
Le Monde
The reader is an innocent abroad, lured into the delightful pages of a story that is all ideas and an idea that is all story.
Sunday Times, (London)