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Britain Against Napoleon - The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 (Paperback)
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Britain Against Napoleon - The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 (Paperback)
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From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The
Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can
match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book
to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to
overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat For more
than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in
continental Europe. How was it that despite multiple changes of
government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain
survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime
which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and
manpower? This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and
bravery) of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars. It shows the degree to which, because of the
magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole
British population were involved: industrialists, farmers,
shipbuilders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers. The
intelligence war was also central; but no participants were more
important, Knight argues, than the bankers and international
traders of the City of London, without whom the armies of Britain's
allies could not have taken the field. ROGER KNIGHT was Deputy
Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now
teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of
Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The
Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson,
which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the
Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for
Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his
life-long interest in the workings of the late eighteenth-century
British state. 'Superb' - Spectator
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