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Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire by Dan Snow (Paperback, 2010)
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- 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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- PublisherHarperCollins
- ISBN-139780007286218
- eBay Product ID (ePID)92666139
Product Key Features
- Number of Pages560 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication NameDeath or Victory: the Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire
- Publication Year2010
- SubjectArchaeology
- TypeTextbook
- AuthorDan Snow
- FormatPaperback
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- Item Height198 mm
- Item Weight410 g
- Item Width129 mm
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- Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
- Title_AuthorDan Snow
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- by great_khan28 Aug, 2024
Dan Snow can tell a good story without ...
Dan Snow can tell a good story without losing sight of History. Well worth reading, especially as the Battle of Quebec and the death of General Wolfe, seem to be ignored in modern historiography.
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- by eversley11330 Apr, 2020
Very good
One of best history books I've read
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