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DEATH OR VICTORY
THE BATTLE FOR QUEBEC AND THE BIRTH OF EMPIRE |
| By: |
Dan Snow |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£6.69 |
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| ISBN 10: |
000728621X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007286218 |
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| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2010 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain's empire in North America. Military history at its best. |
| Synopsis: |
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain's empire in North America. Military history at its best. Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec -- in 1759 France's capital city in Canada -- forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. That year, with the Seven Years' War raging around the globe, a force of 49 ships and nearly 9,000 men commanded by the irascible General James Wolfe, navigated the river, scaled the cliffs and laid siege to the town in an audacious attempt to expel the French from North America forever. In this magisterial first solus book, tying into the 250th anniversary of the battle, Dan Snow tells the story of this famous campaign which was to have far-reaching consequences for Britain's rise to global hegemony, and the world at large. Snow brilliantly sets the battle within its global context and tells a gripping tale of brutal war quite unlike any fought in Europe, where terrain, weather and native Canadian tribes were as fearsome as any enemy.'I never served so disagreeable a campaign as this,' grumbled one British commander, 'it is war of the worst shape.' 1759 was, without question, a year in which the decisions of men changed the world forever. Based on original research and told from all perspectives, this is history -- military, political, human -- on an epic scale. |
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With index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperPress |
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