Great and glorious days
Subtitle: Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet
By: by James Falkner ; foreword by the Duke of Marlborough.
Publisher: Spellmount
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Staplehurst, Kent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722 -- Military leadership.; Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714.; Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century.; France -- History, Military -- 1643-1715.
Other titles: Marlborough's battles, 1704-09
Description: "From the wide cornfields of Blenheim in Bavaria to the dark and bloody woods at Malplaquet, the armies led by John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough met and defeated every general and every army that King Louis XIV of France could put against him." "Born into a family impoverished by the English Civil War, Marlborough learned his trade as a soldier in the French army of the Sun King. Climbing the slippery ladder of success with deft skill, in middle age he was the Captain-General of England, leading her armies, and those of her allies, to startling triumphs across the breadth of western Europe." "James Falkner brings a soldierly understanding of the trials and tribulations of the fateful days of battle fully into play in this account of the great victories of the Duke of Marlborough at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.