The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of NapoleonAn extraordinarily gripping narrative of how Britain, seemingly on the ropes after losing control of America and with growing internal dissent, built the military and naval might to defeat Napoleonand in doing so transformed its destiny In this brilliant, sweeping history of the period, David Andress fuses two hitherto separate historical perspectivesthe military and the social. Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one of the great accomplishments in the