Opis: Theblockade of Phalsburg (Classic Reprint) - Chatrian Erckmann

Excerpt from Theblockade of Phalsburg

"The Blockade of Phalsburg" contains one of the happiest portraits in the Erckmann-Chatrian gallery - that of the Jew Moses who tells the story and who is always in character, however great the patriotic or romantic temptation to idealize him, and whose character is nevertheless portrayed with an almost affectionate appreciation of the sterling qualities underlying its somewhat usurious exterior. The time is 1814, during the invasion of France by the allies after the disastrous battle of Leipsic and the campaign described in "The Conscript." The dwellers in Phalsburg - a little walled town of two or three thousand inhabitants in Lorraine - defend themselves with great intrepidity and determination during the siege which lasts until the capitulation of Paris. The daily life of the citizens and garrison, the various incidents of the blockade, the bombardment by night, the scarcity of food, the occasional sortie for foraging, all pass before the reader depicted with the authors' customary fidelity and life-likeness, and form as perfect a picture of a siege as "The Conscript" does of a campaign.

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Szczegóły: Theblockade of Phalsburg (Classic Reprint) - Chatrian Erckmann

Nazwa: Theblockade of Phalsburg (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Chatrian Erckmann
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331091646
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 342
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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