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War, Experience and Memory: An Austrian Cavalry Officer Narrates the Napoleonic Wars

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War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture

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This book chapter explores the narrative of an Austrian cavalry officer of the Napoleonic Wars. The originality of the piece lies in its comparison between the original hand-written memoir penned in the nineteenth century and the later published version produced in the early twentieth century prior...

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Published in: War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture
Published: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Online Access: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=414038
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