“Unlike the English, Bonaparte had not made peace because his people wanted liberty to trade. What he wanted was liberty to re-plan the world. For that he needed obedience to his will. Except for a remote and half barbarous Russia and the moribund dominion of the Turks, he had already secured it throughout the Continent. But the English with their chaotic notions of individual rights still resisted him.”
Bryant’s narrative on the grit and perseverance of the English during a decade of the Napoleonic era.
Author:, Arthur Bryant
Title: Years of Victory, 1802-1812
Edition: Third Edition
Published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 468p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping and toning - in new protector. Boards and spine clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, mild rubbing to surfaces, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid with a hint of forward lean. Pages tanned. Owner’s information on front end-paper.
Comments: Scarce copy
