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Scotland´s Waterloo
Owen Dudley Edwards
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Description for Scotland´s Waterloo
Paperback. Respected historian Owen Dudley Edwards has collected recollections and imaginings of the battle of Waterloo, seen through the eyes of extraordinary soldiers and great Scottish writers, poets and painters. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
I saw the field of battle... It still exhibits a most striking picture of desolation all the neighbouring houses being broken down by cannon-shot and shells. There was one sweet little chateau in particular called Hougomont which was the object of several desperate assaults and was at length burned to the ground... There was an immense carnage on this spot and the stench of the dead bodies is still frightfully sensible. WALTER SCOTT Why was the Battle of Waterloo so significant for Scottish history? How has the conflict been represented in Scottish art and ... Read more
I saw the field of battle... It still exhibits a most striking picture of desolation all the neighbouring houses being broken down by cannon-shot and shells. There was one sweet little chateau in particular called Hougomont which was the object of several desperate assaults and was at length burned to the ground... There was an immense carnage on this spot and the stench of the dead bodies is still frightfully sensible. WALTER SCOTT Why was the Battle of Waterloo so significant for Scottish history? How has the conflict been represented in Scottish art and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910745168
SKU
V9781910745168
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Ref
99-12
About Owen Dudley Edwards
Owen Dudley Edwards, FRSE, FRHistS, FSA (Scot.) was born in Dublin in 1938, studied at Belvedere College (for reference to which, see James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), and University College, Dublin, then at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, subsequently teaching in the University of Oregon. He then worked as a journalist for ... Read more
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