Brendan Simms: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

Name: Brendan Simms: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
Author: Simms, Brendan
ISBN: 9780141979267

by Simms, Brendan

ISBN: 9780141979267

Published: 2015-06-30

History

'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post 'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources - the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants - to produce a coherent and gripping narrative' Nick Lezard, Guardian The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and exhausted continent. At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. Unknown either to Napoleon or Wellington the battle would be decided by a small, ordinary group of British and German...

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