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Wolff, Otto. OUVRARD: SPECULATOR OF GENIUS 1770-1846.
New York David McKay Co 1962 First Am edition
xv+239pp, illus. Fine in Very Good DJ. Ouvrard was at times arguably the second most powerful man in France. Napoleon regularly extorted loans and 'donations' from him, sometimes throwing him into prison to achieve the desired effect. Much information on the finances of the Empire.
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Wood, Capt. George. THE SUBALTERN OFFICER: A NARRATIVE.
Cambridge Ken Trotman 1986 Facsimile of 1825 ed., limited to 300 copies
247pp, Fine original cloth as issued. An entertaining and spirited memoir covering service with the 82nd Line throughout the entire Peninsular War. Here is Wood describing the conversation of two of his men after the battle of Vittoria: 'This was a devil of a fight sure-ly! That was a woundy crack poor Barney got, wor'n't it, Joe?'--'Ah! but poor Bill Flint got a worse: he be laid low enough, poor fellow!' 'But what do you think of that fine young lieutenant of Grenadiers?' 'Why, dang it, his limbs be shivered to splinters: but I hope as how I shall see the brave fellow on a timbertow some of these odd days; for he be a damn'd good officer.' 'Ay! that he be: and bad luck to the French frogs, if they don't hop away too fast for us, we will pay them off for it yet: but we can't help trifles; so come along Joe! here's to ye, and let's have the old song, 'Our lodgings be on the cold ground.' Quite colorful.
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Zamoyski, Adam. MOSCOW 1812: NAPOLEON'S FATAL MARCH.
New York Harper Collins 2004 First Am edition
xxvi+644pp. Maps & illustrations, fine in dj--may have remainder mark. 'Adam Zamoyski's account of the 1812 campaign is so brilliant that it is impossible to put the book aside...his grasp of both the big picture and of the significant detail reveals a master craftsman at work...this is a great book.'--Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Times
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