Napoleon and Bavaria. Without Napoleon, Bavaria would look different today. His era saw the elevation to the status of kingdom, enormous territorial gains and internal reforms. Thomas Schuler goes in search of traces and tells the story of Bavaria in the time of the French Revolution on the basis of the evidence still preserved today. "We are on a volcano" was how Crown Prince Ludwig, later King Ludwig I and a great Napoleon hater, summed up Bavaria's situation under the Corsican. Indeed, Bavaria was changing at a previously unimagined pace at this time. At the same time, Napoleon was mercilessly drawing on the country's resources for his campaigns. Numerous Bavarians lost their lives in Russia. This book takes the reader on an exciting and vivid journey through the eventful years between 1789 and 1815, bringing battles, diplomatic manoeuvres and the often bitter experiences of the Bavarian population to life before the reader's eyes and showing the many connections between this history and the present. In the end, Bavaria changed sides just in time for the dance on the volcano to have a happy ending after all.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Schuler, T.
Title
"Wir sind auf einem Vulkan"
Details
27 illustrations in colour plate section, and 19 b/w colour illustrations. 319 pp.
State
new
Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Wilhelmstr. 9 80801 München Deutschland
