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| #1254472 in Books | Walker n Company | 2006-06-13 | 2006-06-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.26 x1.17 x6.12l,.96 | File type: PDF | 340 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Magnificent Account|By Craig Pandy|I have been reading about the Battle of Waterloo for almost 40 years. This rates as the best account so far. Barbero has an eminently readable style that provides strategic and tactical insight, as well as the human experience down to the soggy KGL soldiers scrounging for food and dry bedding. Barbero gives a balanced account of the contr|From Publishers Weekly|This new and valuable history of the 1815 French defeat begins with a minimum of background for the non-Napoleonic student, but does superlatively well once Wellington and Napoleon have arrayed their armies for battle (and does not forget
At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic and bloody struggle. In the end, as John Keegan notes, contemporaries felt that Napoleon's defeat had "reversed the tide of European history." Even 190 years later, the name Waterloo resounds.
Italian historian Alessandro Barbero's majestic new account stands apart from previous British and French histories by giving voice to all the nationalities tha...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Battle: A New History of Waterloo | Alessandro Barbero.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.