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The savage storm : Britain on the brink in the age of Napoleon / David Andress.

by Andress, David, 1969-

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London : Little, Brown, 2012.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820.

Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1820.

Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820.

9781408701928 (hbk.)

xv, 428 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Prologue: Battle in Egypt -- Revolutionary terrors -- Sedition and stalemate -- Uneasy yearning for peace -- Alone against the emperor -- Shifting sands -- Isolation and determination -- The state of the nation -- New hopes and new disasters -- The Sepoy General and the Spanish ulcer -- The sorrows of war -- The uncertain tide of victory -- Madrid to Moscow -- In the balance -- Endgames -- Reckoning and return -- Epilogue.

Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one the great accomplishments in our history. And yet it was by no means certain that Britain itself would survive the revolutionary fervour of the age, let alone emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late 1790s, the country was stricken by naval mutinies, rebellion in Ireland, and riots born of hunger, poverty and grinding injustice. As the new century opened, with republican graffiti on the walls of the cities, and revolutionary secret societies reportedly widespread, King George III only narrowly escaped assassination. Jacobin forces seemed to threaten a dissolution of the social order.

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