Research Catalog

Title

The battle that shook Europe : Poltava and the birth of the Russian Empire / Peter Englund.

Author

Englund, Peter, 1957-

Publication

London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

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Description

287 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade.

Subject

• 1709
• Poltava, Battle of, Poltava, Ukraine, 1709
• Russia > History > Peter I, 1689-1725

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The stoat -- Sunday morning -- The road to Poltava -- The war -- The campaign -- Anatomy of a battlefield -- A council of war -- Sunday evening -- "Let us go forward" -- "Give the enemy no time" -- "Cavalry forward!" -- "Shot dead in vain" -- Would God Roos were here" -- "They are leaving their lines!" -- "Not my men but the King's" -- "Sheep to sacrificial slaughter" -- "No musket-ball will hit" -- "As grass before a scythe" -- "The devil couldn't make them" -- "It goes ill!" -- "He tramples down" -- "All is lost" -- "To gather in retreat" -- "Bodies mountain-high" -- "100,000 roubles" -- "Fight at my command!" -- "Would they defend themselves" -- "Not without tears" -- "A fist filled with soil".

ISBN

• 9781780764764 (pbk)
• 1780764766 (pbk)

OCLC

818462316

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library