Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, A World Forever Changed

Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, A World Forever Changed
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[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no town in England that had not sent its soldiers, hardly a household that was not holding its breath, not a family, as Byron put it, that would escape ‘havoc’s tender mercies’ at Waterloo, and yet at the same time life inevitably went on as normal.As Wellington’s rain-sodden army retreated for the final, decisive battle, men and women in England were still going to the theatre and science lectures, still working in the fields and the factories, still reading and writing books and sermons, still painting their pictures and sitting in front of Lord Elgin’s marbles as if almost five thousand did not already lie dead. After ten hours of savage fighting, Waterloo would be littered with the bodies of something like 47,000 dead and wounded. Meanwhile, as the day unfolded, a whole nation, countryside and town, artisan and aristocrat, was brought together by war.From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, Went the Day Well is a breathtaking portrait of Britain in those moments. Moving from England to the battle and back again this vivid, stunning freeze-frame of a country on the single most celebrated day in its modern history shows Crane’s full range in tracing the endless, overlapping connections between people’s lives. From private tragedies, disappointed political hopes, and public discontents to grandiloquent public celebrations and monuments, it answers Wellington’s call as he rallied his troops to ‘Think what England is thinking of us now’.

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David Crane. Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, A World Forever Changed

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Contents

Epigraph

Prologue

PART I

The Tiger is Out

Midnight

1 a.m

2 a.m

3 a.m

4 a.m

5 a.m

6 a.m

7 a.m

8 a.m

9 a.m

10 a.m

11 a.m

12 noon

1 p.m

2 p.m

3 p.m

4 p.m

5 p.m

6 p.m

7 p.m

8 p.m

9 p.m

10 p.m

11 p.m

PART II

The Opening of the Vials

The Days That Are Gone

New Battle Lines

Myth Triumphant

Notes on the Text

Reference Notes

Select Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Picture Section

Index

By the Same Author

About the Publisher

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