Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo - Paperback

by David Crane (Author)

In these pages, acclaimed historian David Crane gives us an astonishing, intimate snapshot of the people and places surrounding the battle that changed the course of world history. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, husband and wife, Went the Day Well? offers a highly original view of Waterloo, showing how the battle was not only a military landmark, but also a cultural watershed that drew the line between the rural, reactionary age of the past and the urban, innovative era to come. Lyrically rendered in Crane's signature prose style, this essential account freeze-frames the ordinary men and women of 1815 who went about their business, attended lectures, worked in fields and factories--all on the cusp of a new, unforeseeable age.

Author Biography

David Crane read history and English at Oxford University before becoming a lecturer at universities in Holland, Japan and Africa. His books include Went the Day Well?, Scott of the Antarctic, Empires of the Dead, and The Kindness of Sisters. He lives in northwest Scotland.