Download Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo AudioBook Free
From Samuel Johnson Reward shortlisted creator David Crane, this audiobook is about the Britain that fought the struggle of Waterloo - from pauper to painter, poet to prince, soldier to civilian. Midnight, Weekend, 17 June 1815. There was no town in England that hadn't sent its military, hardly children that had not been holding its breath, not a family, as Byron input it, that would evade 'havoc's tender mercies' at Waterloo, yet at the same time life inevitably went on as normal. As Wellington's rain-sodden military retreated for the final, decisive battle, women and men in England were still heading to the theater and technology lectures, still employed in the domains and the factories, still reading and writing books and sermons, still painting their pictures and near Lord Elgin's marbles as though almost 5,000 did not already lie deceased. After 10 time of savage fighting with each other, Waterloo would be littered with the physiques of something like 47,000 deceased and wounded. On the other hand, as your day unfolded, a whole nation, countryside and town, artisan and aristocrat, was brought together by battle. From Samuel Johnson Reward shortlisted creator David Crane, Travelled your day Well? is a breathtaking portrait of Britain in those moments. Moving from England to the struggle and back again, this stunning, stunning freeze framework of your country on the single most famous day in its modern background shows Crane's full-range in tracing the never-ending, overlapping relationships between people's lives. From private tragedies, disappointed politics hopes, and open public discontents to grandiloquent open public activities and monuments, it answers Wellington's call as he rallied his soldiers to 'think what England is thinking about us now'. David Crane's first reserve, Lord Byron's Jackal, was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, The Kindness of Sisters, published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of passionate biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed Scott of the Antarctic was published, accompanied by Men of War, a assortment of 19th-century naval biographies, in '09 2009.
