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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe

By Andrew Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2005
ISBN
0060762152, 9780060762155
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2394025 bytes)
Series
Making History
Pages
160\0
Time added
2012-11-27 00:52:13

Description

June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington -- the only time the two greatest military strategists of their age faced each other in combat. With precision and elegance, Andrew Roberts sets the political, strategic, and historical scene, providing a breathtaking account of each successive stage of the battle while also examining new evidence that reveals exactly how Napoleon was defeated. Illuminating, authoritative, and engrossing, Waterloo is a masterful work of history.

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