Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe

by Stephen Brumwell

Book Overview

WINNER: 2008 C. P. STACEY PRIZE (Best book in Canadian Military History) WINNER: 2008 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Ugly, gangling, and tormented by agonising illness, Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero. Yet in 1759, on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec, he won a battle with momentous consequences. Wolfe's victory, bought at the cost of his life, ensured that English, not French, would become the dominant language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773532617
• ISBN13: 9780773532618
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"