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Waterloo - Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny (Paperback, Digital original)
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Waterloo - Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny (Paperback, Digital original)
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The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world
for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the
charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of
Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it
represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army,
most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the
very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of
Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the
campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the
evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years
after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of
fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating
armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical
reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a
darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental
honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and
human frailty. An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail
and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the
real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history,
the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and
cannon.
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