The Battle of Wagram [Paperback]

Gilles Lapouge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 1998

A fascinating historical novel,...Lapouge is clearly a passionate historian. --The Times

Editorial Reviews

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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) )

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books; F edition (April 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561310131
• ISBN-13: 978-1561310135
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,406,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Battle?, August 18, 2000

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David P. Wester (Marshall, Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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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:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT a work of history, August 21, 1998

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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, June 16, 2009

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Arturo De La Rosa - See all my reviews
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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.