This intense yet panoramic novel is based on an actual episode during the battle of Wagram, in Austria, as it appears in the diary of one of Napoleons generals: two cavalry regiments that did their best to annihilate each other before the gates of Vienna in 1809 belonged to the Prince of SaxeTeschen, and on his orders fought on opposing sides. Re-baptized SaxeSalza in the novel, the Prince, on the eve of the battle, transfers his wife's young lover from his own unit to the other regiment, so that he may kill and be killed by his brothers-in-arms. But long before that climactic moment, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, the fortunes of the Hapsburgs and the conquests of Napoleon, an exalting and terrifying love has engulfed Clemence of Saxe-Salza and Otto Apfelgrun. Diplomacy, court intrigue, the marching and countermarching of marvelously uniformed and accoutered toy soldiers, explodes in sudden carnage, and the love of Clemence and Otto is buried beneath a hundred thousand of the dying and the dead.
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Lapouge’s literary ambition is on that level[of Tolstoy]—and the book itself sustains that claim. (Bertrand Poirot-Delpech Le Monde )
The reader is an innocent abroad, lured into the delightful pages of a story that is all ideas and an idea that is all story. (Sunday Times, (London) )
The reader is an innocent abroad, lured into the delightful pages of a story that is all ideas and an idea that is all story. (Sunday Times, (London) )
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Text: English, French (translation)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the Battle?,
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This review is from: The Battle of Wagram (Hardcover)
If you are interested in daily life in Austria during the Napoleonic period then there is something here for you, as this novel contains insights on that. However, if you want to know about Wagram, well I keep thumbing through this book and I can't find the chapter on it! It is not a bad book, it just has a misleading title.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This is NOT a work of history,
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This review is from: The Battle of Wagram (Paperback)
This book which I purchased in hopes of finding more info on the battle of Wagram (why would I think it had something to do with that?) turned out to be a turgid and boring novel. Action? No... Plot? There was one. So one point for implementation. Conclusion? I returned it in disgust.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful,
This review is from: The Battle of Wagram (Hardcover)
I hate to admit that I read this book. I am proud to say that I threw it away. What battle? Not in this book. Not even a decent story. Unbelievably boring and ridiculous. Apparently this waste of time takes place during the Napoleonic period. But I'm not sure.
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