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The fourth book in an excellent series from Histoire & Collections, Austerlitz covers the famous battle, the results of which saw Napoleon at the height of his power.A detailed text is accompanied by contemporary paintings and a vast array of graphics illustrating the uniforms and equipment of the soldiers of the time. By the same author and available from CasemateJena-Auerstaedt: The Triumph of the EagleBorodino-The Moskova: The Battle for the RedoubtsWagram: At the Heyday of the Empire

416 Seiten, illustriert, Hintere Umschlagseite leicht wellig. Geringfügige Gebrauchsspuren, ansonsten gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 950 21 x 14 cm, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.

, 415 pages, with small black and white photographs throughout

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Draws on original manuscripts in Austrian and British archives and recently published Russian documentation to provide a detailed chronicle of the battle that resulted in a great victory for Napoleon's Grande Armee

Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Aus-terlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.

Paperback. 'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish TimesIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

This all-new volume chronicles the events that climaxed on the field of Austerlitz in one of the most famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Not only was it the first campaign that Napoleon waged as Emperor of France, but also the first great test for his Grande Armée. The Emperor himself regarded it as his greatest victory and it undoubtedly won him a mastery of Europe that would remain unbroken for almost a decade. Most accounts of the campaign have until now been based almost exclusively on French sources, but following extensive research in the Austrian archives Ian Castle is now able to provide a far more balanced account of Austerlitz.

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and questions the assumptions - and explores the myths - that have shaped our understanding of the event ever since. His account follows every twist and turn of a war that was fought out across central Europe two centuries ago. In particular he reconstructs the course of the action in every sector of the Austerlitz battlefield, using French, Austrian and Russian records, and re-evaluates the place of the battle in the history and mythology of the Napoleonic era.

Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W.G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is. An orphan who came to England alone in the summer of 1939 and was raised by a Welsh Methodist minister and his wife as their own, Austerlitz grew up with no conscious memory of where he came from. W.G. Sebald embodies in Austerlitz the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the mind’s defenses against trauma. Along the way, this novel of many riches dwells magically on a variety of subjects–railway architecture, military fortifications; insets, plants, and animals; the constellations; works of art; the strange contents of the museum of a veterinary school; a small circus; and the three capital cities that loom over the book, London, Paris, and Prague–in the service of its astounding vision.

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The Battle of Austerlitz is almost universally regarded as the most impressive of Napoleon s many victories. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was unprecedented, the great victory being met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse. In this insightful study, the author analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon s Imperial Guard and Alexander s Imperial Leib-Guard. The author has produced a detailed and balanced assessment of the battle that for the first time places familiar French accounts in their proper perspective and exposes many myths regarding the battle that have been perpetuated and even embellished in recent books. With 1805: Austerlitz, the reader is left with a thorough appreciation of Napoleon and his Grande Arm e of 1805, an army that decisively defeated not a hapless relic of the ancien regime but rather a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier.

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and questions the assumptions - and explores the myths - that have shaped our understanding of the event ever since. His account follows every twist and turn of a war that was fought out across central Europe two centuries ago. In particular he reconstructs the course of the action in every sector of the Austerlitz battlefield, using French, Austrian and Russian records, and re-evaluates the place of the battle in the history and mythology of the Napoleonic era.

In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago.

In young austerlitz taken from the last book w g sebald saw published we are told the story of a man who learns that his past is a lie

A London Sunday Times Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

Neuware -Paris-Austerlitz: Eine berührende Liebesgeschichte - intensiv, direkt, kompromisslos.Ein junger spanischer Maler flieht vor den Ansprüchen seiner gutbürgerlichen Familie nach Paris und steht dort vor dem Nichts. Er hat keinen Job, kein Geld und weiß nicht wohin, als er Michel kennenlernt, einen Arbeiter Mitte fünfzig, dessen Vitalität ihn fasziniert und anzieht. Sie verlieben sich, Michel nimmt ihn auf, in seine Wohnung, sein Bett, sein Leben. Am Anfang sind sie nur glücklich und genießen die gemeinsame Zeit, die nächtlichen Streifzüge durch die Kneipen und die am Wochenende durch das lichte Paris, die Kinos, die Ausstellungen, die Parks. Aber irgendwann erinnern die in der Ecke des ärmlichen Hinterhofzimmers gestapelten Leinwände den jungen Mann daran, dass er noch andere Ambitionen hat. Auch der Alters-, Bildungs- und Klassenunterschied macht sich bemerkbar, und die Liebe kann diese Unterschiede nicht besiegen, nicht, wenn sie so besitzergreifend ist wie die Michels. Ein Roman, der nach den Beweggründen des Herzens forscht. Sie mögen gelegentlich falsch sein, erweisen sich aber als unwiderstehlich. Es ist die tröstliche Natur der Liebe, ihre erlösende Kraft, auch wenn sie nicht alles überwindet, die diesen Roman zu einem Juwel macht und die große sprachliche Kraft von Rafael Chirbes noch einmal leuchten lässt. 160 pp. Deutsch

A highly detailed combat study of Napoleon's 1805 Ulm-Austerlitz campaigns, this book is based on exhaustive use of French archival research. Sweeping battle narrative, coupled with new, detailed maps and orders of battle make Napoleon and Austerlitz a must.

A highly detailed combat study of Napoleon's 1805 Ulm-Austerlitz campaigns, this book is based on exhaustive use of French archival research. Sweeping battle narrative, coupled with new, detailed maps and orders of battle make Napoleon and Austerlitz a must.

The Battle of Austerlitz is almost universally regarded as the most impressive of Napoleon s many victories. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was unprecedented, the great victory being met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse. In this insightful study, the author analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon s Imperial Guard and Alexander s Imperial Leib-Guard. The author has produced a detailed and balanced assessment of the battle that for the first time places familiar French accounts in their proper perspective and exposes many myths regarding the battle that have been perpetuated and even embellished in recent books. With 1805: Austerlitz, the reader is left with a thorough appreciation of Napoleon and his Grande Arm e of 1805, an army that decisively defeated not a hapless relic of the ancien regime but rather a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier.