From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792-1815

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Author: M. Thoral
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/24/2010
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230252875

About the Author
MARIE-CECILE THORAL is Senior Lecturer in Modern International and European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Previously she taught at Coventry University and held a post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Modern History at the University of York from 2006 to 2008, in the research project 'Nation, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in European Memories, ' funded by the AHRC.