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Author : L. O. Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Duel, the Battle of Waterloo written by L. O. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. O. Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Duel written by L. O. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297865269
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Napoleon and Wellington written by Andrew Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. 'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Observer On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses.
Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180977
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Duel written by John Lukacs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This day-by-day account of the maneuvering between Britain and Germany in 1940 is “a wonderful story wonderfully told” (George F. Will, New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner). During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe—and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. From the acclaimed author of Five Days in London, May 1940, this book tells the story of two leaders facing off against each other, and the decisions they made that shaped the eventual outcome of the Second World War. “Powerful…An impressive study [written] with elegance and panache.”—The New York Times “A master of narrative history on a par with Barbara Tuchman and Garrett Mattingly.”—Kirkus Reviews “An often witty and always fascinating—even entertaining—writer.”—TheWashington Post
Author : Martyn Beardsley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445619903
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Voices 1815 written by Martyn Beardsley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of the Battle of Waterloo through the voices of those that experienced it first hand.
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465039944
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Longest Afternoon written by Brendan Simms and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.
Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718310
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Battle written by Alessandro Barbero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that took part. Invoking the memories of British, French, and Prussian soldiers, Barbero meticulously re-creates the conflict as it unfolded, from General Reille's early afternoon assault on the chateau of Hougoumont, to the desperate last charge of Napoleon's Imperial Guard as evening settled in. From privates to generals, Barbero recounts individual miracles and tragedies, moments of courage and foolhardiness, skillfully blending them into the larger narrative of the battle's extraordinary ebb and flow. One is left with indelible images: cavalry charges against soldiers formed in squares; the hand-to-hand combat around farmhouses; endless cannon balls and smoke. And, finally, a powerful appreciation of the inevitability and futility of war. To be published on the 190th anniversary of Waterloo, The Battle is a masterpiece of military history.
Author : Rupert Matthews
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784281166
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Waterloo written by Rupert Matthews and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most dramatic and decisive battles ever fought. It marked the bloody end of the long struggle between the new ideals of the French Revolution and the established orders that had begun in 1793, and ushered in a century of peace in Europe. For such a massively important battle, Waterloo is all too often misunderstood, probably because the combatants have concentrated on the role of their own troops. Going back to the original sources, the author looks at the day of battle as a whole, delving behind the headline events to reveal why the battle unfolded as it did.
Author : Muffling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo written by Muffling and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Forrest
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191640301
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Waterloo written by Alan Forrest and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in
Author : Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von Müffling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A sketch of the battle of Waterloo written by Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von Müffling and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Story of the Battle of Waterloo written by George Robert Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
ISBN 13 : 1537584189
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Battle of Waterloo written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Waterloo has become synonymous with the word “defeat” but who lost, and why was it important? In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte left the island of Elba, and in a space of 100 days took power, and challenged the entire world to meet him on his terms. When that failed, he offered them a fight, one that would end at Waterloo, and left repercussions which can still be felt, even now, centuries later. Inside you will read about... ✓ Beginnings ✓ Discord and Discontent ✓ The World Rearranged ✓ The Prisoner ✓ The Journey to Waterloo Begins ✓ One Hundred Days ✓ Quatre Bras & Ligny And much more! Who was this man, and what happened on the battlefield that made this fight in particular, so important? What was the lesson of Waterloo?
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612281583
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Waterloo written by Russell Roberts and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo was the climax of The Hundred Days, that remarkable period when Napoléon returned from exile on Elba and once again seized control of France. Waterloo was like a giant chessboard for both Napoléon and his opponent Wellington; both made strategic maneuvers knowing that not just their futures, but the future of Europe and maybe even the world, were at stake. Why was Napoléon so confident of victory at Waterloo that he detached thousands of men on another mission? What strategy did Wellington use to disguise the strength of his forces? What strategy did Napoléon employ that wound up costing him instead? These and other questions are what make the Battle of Waterloo so fascinating to examine.
Author : Christopher Summerville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868196
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Who was Who at Waterloo written by Christopher Summerville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo or do they? This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book, a biographical dictionary, and a myth-busting expose, Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to historys most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order, and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website, the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers, politicians, peasants, surgeons, artists, novelists, poets, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture, politics, medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources, identifying myths, irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battles participants.
Author : Emmanuel marquis de Grouchy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marshal Grouchy's Own Account of the Battle of Waterloo written by Emmanuel marquis de Grouchy and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
