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The Battle — Patrick Rambaud

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Mar-2001
  • Picador (UK)
  • ISBN: 0330371479
  • ISBN13: 9780330371476

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Jun-2001
  • Grove Press
  • ISBN: 0802138101
  • ISBN13: 9780802138101

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Apr-2000
  • Picador (UK)
  • ISBN: 0330371460
  • ISBN13: 9780330371469

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  • Hardcover
  • Apr-2000
  • Grove Press
  • ISBN: 0802116620
  • ISBN13: 9780802116628

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Dec-2015
  • Europe Comics

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Description
The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words (`On Tuesday 16th May 1809 . . .'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle - now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe - took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid detail and meticulous accuracy, Rambaud paints a frighteningly convincing picture of the scene, imbuing the reader with a sense of the full horror and fascination of combat. With a cast enlivened by real people - Marshals Berthier, Lanne and Massena, the writer Stendhal, the painter Lejeune and, of course, the Emperor himself, The Battle is at once an incredible and epic book, a captivating literary recreation and a spellbinding portrait of one of history's most enigmatic characters.
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