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The Bells of Victory - The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and Conduct of the Seven Years' War 1757-1762 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Bells of Victory - The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and Conduct of the Seven Years' War 1757-1762 (Paperback, Revised)
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'Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory', wrote
Horace Walpole after receiving news of Wolfe's victory at Quebec in
October 1759. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years' War have
emphasized the contribution of the Elder Pitt to the success of
Britain in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, India and the Far East.
The Bells of Victory argues that such a view is misguided and that,
far from exercising single-handed control, Pitt's influence was
necessarily circumscribed. The margin between military success and
failure was extremely small, and the British authorities worked
within constraints imposed by constitutional propriety and
political expediency. Effective government action was the result of
teamwork by many individuals in the diverse fields of diplomacy,
politics, finance, the army, navy, ordnance and commissariat.
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