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The Battle of Waterloo Experience (Hardcover)
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The Battle of Waterloo Experience (Hardcover)
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In association with the National Army Museum, well known military
historians, journalists and broadcasters Peter and Dan Snow tell
the story of one of the world's most famous and important battles.
The Battle of Waterloo Experience provides what no other book on
the battle contains - removable facsimiles of historic archival
documents. Readers can relive this extraordinary moment in history
by holding and examining rare or previously unpublished sketch
maps, letters, orders, official papers and proclamations held by
the National Army Museum and other archives and museums around
Europe. Peter and Dan Snow examine the strengths and weaknesses of
the leaders, the armies and their weapons. Like all the greatest
battles, Waterloo is steeped in controversy - the battle ended in
decisive victory, but it might so easily have turned out
differently. The Snows explore all the questions the battle raised.
Who made mistakes? Whose victory really was it? Would Wellington
have won without Blucher and his Prussians? What was the main cause
of the French defeat? The Battle of Waterloo Experience contains 20
rare or previously unpublished removable documents of historic
importance, 80 period paintings, etchings and illustrations, 20
colour photographs of Waterloo militaria from the National Army
Museum's unparalleled collections and a removable booklet featuring
6 specially commissioned full-colour battle and campaign maps. It
puts history in your hands. 20 REMOVABLE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE: * A
campaign journal of a colonel of Hussars * The Duke of Wellington's
handwritten orders to the commander defending the farm of
Hougoumont * The poignant letters written to family and loved ones
by officers and men shortly after the battle * The paybook of a
soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard * The Times of 22 June 1815,
containing a complete transcript of Wellington's renowned Waterloo
Dispatch.
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