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Dead men telling tales : Napoleonic war veterans and the military memoir industry, 1808-1914 / Matilda Greig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greig, Matilda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Soldiers.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- The language of war
- Before the ink dries
- Iberian War writing
- The myth of the accidental author
- Scribblomania
- Editors and afterlives
- Circulation and trasnational memory.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-264933-7
- 0-19-191851-2
- 0-19-264932-9
- OCLC:
- 1255227716
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