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“War is a tissue of uncertainty, its theory often displaying conviction and confidence not reflected in its practice.”
Richard Holmes
“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several crates of chemical and electrical equipment, including a system of Voltaic batteries and a hand-cranked generator.”
Richard Holmes

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Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer Footsteps
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The Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars
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