Peter Englund

The Battle That Shook Europe

Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781780764764
• ISBN-10: 1780764766
• Artikelnr.: 36772853

Autorenporträt

Peter Englund

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PROLOGUE The Stoat THE MARCH  Sunday Morning The Road to
Poltava The War The Campaign Anatomy of a Battlefield A Council of War
Sunday Evening THE BATTLE 8. Let Us Go Forward 9. Give the Enemy No Time
10. Cavalry Forward!! Shot in Vain 11. Would God Roos Were Here 12. They
Are Leaving Their Lines 13. Not My Men but the King's 14. Sheep to
Sacrifical Slaughter 15. No Musket-ball Will Hit 16.  As Grass Before a
Scythe 17. The Devil Couldn't Make them 18.  It Goes Ill 19. He Tramples
Down 20. All is Lost 21. To Gather in Retreat 22. Bodies Mountain-High THE
RETREAT 23. 100,000 Roubles 24. Fight at My Command 25. Would They Defend
Themselves 26. Not Without Tears EPILOGUE 27.  A Fist Filled with Soil
Sources and Literature Biographical Appendix Index