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Witnessing Waterloo - 24 Hours, 48 Lives, a World Forever Changed (Paperback)
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Witnessing Waterloo - 24 Hours, 48 Lives, a World Forever Changed (Paperback)
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[Previously published as 'Went The Day Well'] 'Of all the books
marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best'
Spectator 'A book to die for' Evening Standard From Samuel Johnson
Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking
portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo. As
Wellington's rain-sodden army retreated towards an obscure valley
called Waterloo, the men and women of Britain were still going to
the theatre and science lectures, working in the fields and the
factories, reading and writing books and sermons, painting their
pictures and sitting in front of Lord Elgin's marbles. David
Crane's stunning freeze-frame of Britain on this day of momentous
change shifts hour by hour between Britain and Belgium. The Britain
that fought Waterloo - its radicals and patriots, artisans and
aristocrats, prisoners and poets - appears through the smoke of
battle and the mythology of Waterloo in this magnificent and
original tracing of the endless, overlapping connections between
people's lives.
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