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Waterloo - The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon (Paperback)
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Waterloo - The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon (Paperback)
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Price R167
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A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal
events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military
historians. The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo,
Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one
of the greatest military upsets of all time. Waterloo became a
legend overnight and remains one of the most argued-over battles in
history. Lord Wellington immortally dubbed it 'the nearest-run
thing you ever saw in your life,' but the British victory became
iconic, a triumph of endurance that ensured a 19th century world in
which Britain played the key role; it was also a defining moment
for the French, bringing Napoleon I's reign to an end and closing
the second Hundred Years' War. Alongside the great drama and
powerful characters, Jeremy Black gives readers a fascinating look
at where this battle belongs in the larger story of the tectonic
power shifts in Europe, and the story of military modernisation.
The result is a revelatory view of Waterloo's place in the broader
historical arc.
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