Description
Product ID: | 9781848844681 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Walcheren 1809: Scandalous Destruction of a British Army |
Authors: | Author: Martin R. Howard |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Specific wars and campaigns, Battles and campaigns, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Napoleonic Wars, Battles & campaigns, Netherlands, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Illustrated with maps, photographs of Walcheren today, and contemporary images from the Dutch archives. Provides a medically informed (but easily understandable) account of the mysterious fever which decimated the expeditionary force and blighted the British army for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars. |
Imprint Name: | Pen & Sword Military |
Publisher Name: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-11-01 |