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Waterloo - Napoleon's Last Gamble (Paperback, New ed)
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Waterloo - Napoleon's Last Gamble (Paperback, New ed)
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Loot Price R182
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An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world -
Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history. In
'Waterloo', Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of
the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also
a startling interrogation into the methodology of history - is it
possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint?
What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended
forever one of the great personal epics. The career of Napoleon was
brought to a shuddering halt on the evening of 18 June 1815.
Interwoven in the clear-cut narrative are exciting revelations
brought to light by recent research: accident rather than design
led to the crucial cavalry debacle that lost the battle. Amongst
the all-too-human explanation for the blunder that cost Napoleon
his throne, Roberts sets the political, strategic and historical
scene, and finally shows why Waterloo was such an important
historical punctuation mark. The generation after Waterloo saw the
birth of the modern era: ghastly as the carnage here was,
henceforth the wars of the future were fought with infinitely more
ghastly methods of trenches, machine-guns, directed starvation,
concentration camps, and aerial bombardment. By the time of the
Great War, chivalry was utterly dead. The honour of bright uniform
and tangible spirit of elan met their final dance at Waterloo.
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