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Production: An Audience With Peter Snow
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Peter Snow
Description: "TO WAR WITH WELLINGTON" will be published in Sept 2010.
PETER SNOW TELLS THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S TRIUMPHANT WAR WITH NAPOLEON 200 YEARS AGO. IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS IN MILITARY HISTORY - THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S BATTLE WITH NAPOLEONIC FRANCE. It started with a tiny foothold in Portugal in August 1808 and ended with the decisive battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the destruction of Napoleonic France. Two hundred years ago the Duke of Wellington's name was on the lips of every citizen of
Europe. In the early years of the 19th century, Britain played a decisive part in ridding Europe of a French dictator just as she did with a Nazi one 150 years later. Wellington's string of victories over seven years played a decisive part in creating the balance of power in Europe that was to last for a century. What makes this book and Peter's illustrated talk about it so lively and vivid is that he uses the abundant eyewitness accounts from the journals, letters and memoirs of soldiers who fought with Wellington to bring alive the horrors of the fighting, the dreadful nature of the wounds they suffered, the courage, ambitions, and jealousies of soldiers of all
ranks as they struggled across Europe in their bloody fight with the French.
Peter will liberally illustrate the story of Wellington's march from
Portugal to Waterloo with slides and maps on Powerpoint.
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