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The Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars profoundly affected German Central Europe. Thousands of German and Austrian soldiers fought as enemies and allies of France in military campaigns that stretched from the sierras of Spain to the snowfields of Russia. Meanwhile, German and Austrian civilians found their lives touched by warfare in a way not seen for decades. The political geography of area was transformed as the thousand-year Holy Roman Empire collapsed and Napoleon redrew state borders. Millions found themselves forced to adapt to the political and military reality of French domination. This book traces the individual and collective experience of these momentous events in the letters, diaries and memoirs of contemporaries. It explores how soldiers and civilians wrote about both the horrors and pleasures of warfare and how these experiences were mediated by social status, sex, religion and geography. It suggests that despite the trauma of a generation of warfare, older, pre-Revolutionary interpretations of armed conflict remained important as eyewitnesses sought to explain and understand the turmoil around them.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe
• Author: Leighton James
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 281
• EAN: 9780230249172
• ISBN: 0230249175
• ID: 01324708
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 145 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2013

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