The Battle of Waterloo
The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth.With fresh details and interpretations, Jeremy Black places Waterloo within the context of the warfare of the period, showing that Napoleon's modern army was beaten by Britain and Prussia with techniques as old as those of antiquity, including close-quarter combat. Here are the fatefu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-996-3
- EAN: 9781588369963
- Produktnummer: 15715779
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'933 KB
Über den Autor
Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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