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Triumphs and Disasters (Hardback)

Eyewitness Accounts of the Netherlands Campaigns 1813-1814

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By Andrew Bamford
Frontline Books
Pages: 250
Illustrations: 35
ISBN: 9781473835252
Published: 17th February 2016

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Sir Thomas Graham’s Netherlands Campaign of 1813–1814 has produced a surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations.

Mixing formal reports with lively personal narratives, and contemporary letters and diaries with later reflections, this selection covers all the major actions of the campaign and the authors range from one of Graham’s senior staff to an NCO in one of his infantry battalions. In addition to explanatory notes throughout, detailed appendices resolve some of the controversies arising from these and other eyewitness accounts, helping to increase our understanding of these little-known but important operations.

Carefully researched and expertly compiled by historian Andrew Bamford, this is a valuable and absorbing new source, which will be of great interest to any student of the period.

Sir Thomas Graham’s Netherlands campaign of
1813-1814 has produced a perhaps surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations.

Mixing formal reports with lively personal narratives, contemporary letters and diaries with later reflections, with the authors ranging from one of Graham’s senior staff to an NCO in one of his infantry battalions, this selection covers all the major actions of the campaign.

In addition to explanatory notes throughout, appendices seek to resolve some of the controversies arising from these and other eyewitness accounts, helping the reader’s understanding of these important, but not too well known, operations. Also included are 12 illustrations, five maps, six appendices, a bibliography and an index.

Stuart Asquith, Author
 Andrew Bamford

About Andrew Bamford

ANDREW BAMFORD was born in Yorkshire and now lives in Derby. He holds a PhD in Military History from the University of Leeds and now works as a freelance historian and writer. As well as extensive magazine work, he is also author of the forthcoming Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press

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