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In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 By Jenny
Uglow
2015 | 752 Pages | ISBN: 0374280908 | EPUB | 23 MB
'The sharply-observed characters and constant pricks of humour make this book
seem almost as if Jane Austen had written a history of her own times.' Lucy
Worsley The Times
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars -
but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire
mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish
mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and
candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives?
Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one
in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. As the
years passed, so the bullish, flamboyant figure of Napoleon - Boney, the
bogeyman - came to dominate so much that the whole long conflict was given his
name.
Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver,
follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news
upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of
Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the
familiar voices of Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron with others lost in
the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of
how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and
opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.
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