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Brilliantly Romantic Evocation of History,
By Thomas R. Dean (Morristown, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Years of Endurance, 1793-1802 (Hardcover)
Sir W. Arthur Bryant was a historian of a type perhaps no longer much found: the romantic patriot. His trilogy's stirring evocation of the wars with Napoleon (Years of Endurance, Years of Victory and Age of Elegance) have been among my favorite books of history. Written during the Second World War, with its echoes of Britain's isolation during another period when another Continental despot sought European conquest, yet military defeat failed to staunch the British spirit, Bryant (who writes a bit better than that purple prose) was moved to write this trilogy. The books are simply thrilling. His interest in social and economic subjects is not great; his interest is primarily in heroic personalities on the world stage, and the conflict of "national psychologies". His description of battles on land and sea is wonderful. I love these books, and I'm sure all but the academic historian (which Bryant clearly is not) would too.
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