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Rome Or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi
Rome Or Death: The Obsessions
Of General Garibaldi
    In 1875, a few years
    after Italian
    unification, General
    Garibaldi,
    the
    legendary
    military
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Rome Or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi
Rome Or Death: The Obsessions
Of General Garibaldi
    In 1875, General
    Garibaldi, the legendary
    military hero of Italian
    unification, left his
    island retreat in the
    Mediterranean for Rome.
    His battle cry no longer
    required, he was
    pursuing a mission that
    would become an obsession
    in his old age: to divert
    the River Tiber from
    Rome.

    Through this
    forgotten episode,
    Daniel Pick explores
    Garibaldi's passionate
    attachment to Rome and to
    Italy. In the bitter
    debate that ensued many
    myths were laid bare,
    and prevailing medical,
    social and political
    anxieties about the
    future of the state were
    exposed.

    The
    flood-prone Tiber had
    caused havoc, disease
    and death throughout
    history. In the capital,
    the General sought to
    replace it with a
    Parisian-style boulevard
    that would be a wonder of
    the modern world. But
    behind his florid promise
    to revitalise 'Italy' lay
    a complex and shadowy
    history, including a
    traumatic event felt by
    Garibaldi as the defining
    tragedy of his life: the
    loss of his wife Anita.
    Despite himself, he
    became embroiled in the
    political labyrinth of
    Rome and a drama of
    thwarted ambition, grand
    illusion and
    disillusionment, whose
    significance was not lost
    on Garibaldi's later
    admirer, Benito
    Mussolini, another
    self-styled redeemer of
    the Eternal City and the
    fever-ridden marshes of
    Italy.
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Fatal Purity: Robespierre And
The French Revolution
    Robespierre was only 36
    when he died, sent to
    the guillotine where he
    had sent thousands ahead
    of him. Only a few months
    before, this pale and
    fragile man, formal,
    anxious to the point of
    paranoia, steeled by
    deep-held principles,
    had held centre place in
    the new Festival of the
    Supreme Being, wearing
    his sky-blue coat and
    decreeing a new religion
    for France. Robespierre
    and the Revolution were
    inseparable: a single
    inflexible tyrant. But
    what turned a shy young
    lawyer into the living
    embodiment of the Terror
    at its most violent?
    Admirers called him 'the
    great incorruptible';
    critics dubbed him a
    'monster', a
    'bloodthirsty charlatan';
    even his friends found
    him hard to
    understand.

    Ruth
    Scurr sheds a dazzling
    new light on this puzzle,
    tracing Robespierre's
    life from a troubled
    childhood in provincial
    Arras to the passionate
    idealist, fighting for
    the rights of the people,
    and sweeping on to the
    implacable leader
    prepared to sign the
    death warrant for his
    closest friends. No
    backdrop can match the
    French revolution: it
    burns with human
    interest. As Scurr says,
    'More than haunting, it
    obsesses, because it
    will not lie down and
    die'. Her brilliant,
    probing narrative brings
    the Revolution and its
    chilling hero to fiery
    life once again, helping
    us to understand how
    ideals and fanaticism can
    so often go hand in hand,
    as they still do
    today.
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Paris Babylon
Paris Babylon
    'Nothing but a brothel
    and a gambling hell'
    roared Thomas Carlyle at
    the thought of Paris, a
    city known in the
    nineteenth century as
    'the new Babylon', and
    notorious for its
    obsession with sex and
    money. Ruled by the
    ailing despot Napoleon
    III and his ruthless wife
    Eugenie, Paris in 1869
    was racked with scandal,
    anxiety and political
    tension. Europe's most
    glittering and confident
    capital, spectacularly
    rebuilt by Baron
    Haussmann, was on the
    verge of a catastrophic
    nemesis - the
    Franco-Prussian War and
    the fall of the Second
    Empire, followed by a
    four-month siege and the
    establishment of the
    Commune, a brave
    socialist experiment
    which soon ended in
    massive bloodshed and
    destruction. Paris
    Babylon charts and
    explains this astonishing
    course of events, as
    well as painting a richly
    detailed picture of
    Parisian life, from its
    palaces, theatres,
    hotels and department
    stores to its prisons,
    hospitals and back-street
    dives. Drawing on a broad
    range of sources and a
    rich cast of characters,
    Rupert Christiansen
    evokes one of the most
    dramatic episodes of
    modern history - one
    which still has powerful
    resonance today.
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The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth
The Crimean War: The Truth
Behind The Myth
    The Crimean War is
    full of resonance - the
    battles of Alma,
    Balaclava and Inkerman,
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The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth
The Crimean War: The Truth
Behind The Myth
    The Crimean War is full
    of resonance - not least,
    the Charge of the Light
    Brigade, the Siege of
    Sevastopol and Florence
    Nightingale at Scutari
    with her lamp. In this
    fascinating book, Clive
    Ponting separates the
    myths from the reality,
    and tells the true story
    of the heroism of the
    ordinary soldiers, often
    through eye-witness
    accounts of the men who
    fought and those who
    survived the terrible
    winter of 1854-55.


    To
    contemporaries, it was
    'The Great War with
    Russia' - fought not only
    in the Black Sea and the
    Crimea but in the Baltic,
    the Arctic, the Pacific
    and the Caucasus.
    Ironically, Britain's
    allies were France, her
    traditional enemy, ably
    commanded (from home) by
    Napoleon III himself,
    and the Muslim Ottoman
    Empire, widely seen as
    an infidel corrupt power.
    It was the first of the
    'modern' wars, using
    rifles, artillery,
    trench systems, steam
    battleships, telegraph
    and railways; yet the
    British soldiers wore
    their old highly coloured
    uniforms and took part in
    their last cavalry charge
    in Europe. There were
    over 650, 000 casualties.


    Britain was
    unable fully to deploy
    her greatest strength,
    her Navy, while her Army
    was led by incompetent
    aristocrats. The views of
    ordinary soldiers about
    Raglan, Cardigan and
    Lucan make painful
    reading.
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The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth
The Crimean War: The Truth
Behind The Myth
    The Crimean War is full
    of resonance - not least,
    the Charge of the Light
    Brigade, the Siege of
    Sevastopol and Florence
    Nightingale at Scutari
    with her lamp. In this
    fascinating book, Clive
    Ponting separates the
    myths from the reality,
    and tells the true story
    of the heroism of the
    ordinary soldiers, often
    through eye-witness
    accounts of the men who
    fought and those who
    survived the terrible
    winter of 1854-55.


    To
    contemporaries, it was
    'The Great War with
    Russia' - fought not only
    in the Black Sea and the
    Crimea but in the Baltic,
    the Arctic, the Pacific
    and the Caucasus.
    Ironically, Britain's
    allies were France, her
    traditional enemy, ably
    commanded (from home) by
    Napoleon III himself,
    and the Muslim Ottoman
    Empire, widely seen as
    an infidel corrupt power.
    It was the first of the
    'modern' wars, using
    rifles, artillery,
    trench systems, steam
    battleships, telegraph
    and railways; yet the
    British soldiers wore
    their old highly coloured
    uniforms and took part in
    their last cavalry charge
    in Europe. There were
    over 650, 000 casualties.


    Britain was
    unable fully to deploy
    her greatest strength,
    her Navy, while her Army
    was led by incompetent
    aristocrats. The views of
    ordinary soldiers about
    Raglan, Cardigan and
    Lucan make painful
    reading.
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The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815
    Known collectively as the
    'Great War', for over a
    decade the Napoleonic
    Wars engulfed not only a
    whole continent but also
    the overseas possessions
    of the leading European
    states. A war of
    unprecedented scale and
    intensity, it was in
    many ways a product of
    change that acted as a
    catalyst for upheaval and
    reform across much of
    Europe, with aspects of
    its legacy lingering to
    this very day. There is a
    mass of literature on
    Napoleon and his times.
    Yet there are only a
    handful of scholarly
    works that seek to cover
    the Napoleonic Wars in
    their entirety, and
    fewer still that place
    the conflict in any
    broader framework. This
    study redresses the
    balance. Drawing on
    recent findings and
    applying a 'total'
    history approach, it
    explores the causes and
    effects of the conflict,
    and places it in the
    context of the evolution
    of modern warfare. It
    reappraises the most
    significant and
    controversial military
    ventures, including the
    war at sea and Napoleon's
    campaigns of 1805-9. The
    study gives an insight
    into the factors that
    shaped the war, setting
    the struggle in its wider
    economic, cultural,
    political and
    intellectual dimensions.
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1815: The Roads to Waterloo
1815: The Roads To Waterloo
    The seventeen months from
    April 1814 to August 1815
    were an extraordinary
    period in European
    history; a period which
    saw two sieges of Paris,
    a complete revision of
    Europe's political
    frontiers, an
    international Congress
    set up in Vienna, civil
    war in Italy and
    international war in
    Belgium.Gregor Dallas
    tells the story of these
    days through the
    perspectives of three
    very different European
    cities: the great
    metropolis of London,
    post-revolutionary Paris
    and baroque Vienna. The
    writing is almost
    cinematic in its power to
    evoke and bring to life
    the Europe of Tolstoy:
    the ebb and flow of
    power, of armies and of
    peoples across Europe's
    northern plains. Working
    essentially from primary
    sources, Dallas is as
    interested in the weather
    conditions before battle
    as in the way cartoonists
    reacted to court
    intrigues and fashions.It
    is also Europe seen
    through the eyes of its
    central players:
    Talleyrand, who has
    served nearly every
    French regime since the
    Revolution of 1789;
    Metternich, who devises
    new plans for a 'Germany'
    that does not yet exist
    and for a 'Europe' that
    remains devided;
    Wellington, who reveals
    himself a diplomat as
    well as a soldier; Tsar
    Alexander, an idealist
    seeking to impose a
    uniform plan for all
    Europe; and 'Boney'
    himself, who has his own
    ideal of Europe and,
    though banished to Elba,
    does not abandon his
    dream to realise it.
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