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Author : Ray Davies
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunset written by Ray Davies and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000-02-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative force behind the '60s superband, The Kinks, offers his debut collection of short stories.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : London : Blackie, [189-?]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book One of the 28th written by George Alfred Henty and published by London : Blackie, [189-?]. This book was released on 1890 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Swanston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749019557
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Waterloo: The Bravest Man written by Andrew Swanston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June, 1815. The Coldstream Guards and the third guards are waiting impatiently for orders to move into battle against Napoleon and his French army. Every day seems endless as the troops wait for Wellington's orders. When word is finally received, the path to glory it is not quite what the troops were hoping for. Hours of marching during the day are followed by restless nights' sleep in the rain, dampening their spirits and weakening morale. When the group eventually encounter the French in battle, a special command comes from Wellington himself to Colonel James Macdonell of the Coldstream Guards: hold the chateau at Hougoumont and do not let the French pass. What happens next is history.
Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062312073
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Waterloo written by Bernard Cornwell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history. In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles—as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end. Published to coincide with the battle’s bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.
Author : Emily Grayson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061978353
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Station written by Emily Grayson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These were days of uncertainty and peril, of noble deeds and great sacrifice. An exciting time to be young and adventurous . . . but a dangerous time to fall in love.
Author : Karen Olsson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312425593
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Waterloo written by Karen Olsson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Lasseter is in a slump--as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly, and in every other part of his life as well. When he grudgingly agrees to write a piece about a rising female Republican legislator, he stumbles onto a political fight in which the good guys and bad guys start to seem interchangeable. And not even the deceased can be relied upon to stick to their stories when Nick gets involved with a political insider. As they search the dim depths of a civic past that's anything but dead and buried, they find that some things never change--things like the moral ambiguity of practical politics and the sad, hilarious cluelessness of young men in love. Bittersweet and biting, elegiac and sharply observed, Waterloo is a portrait of a generation in search of itself--and a love letter to the slackers, rockers, hustlers, hacks, and hangers-on who populate Austin, Texas--from a formidable new intelligence in American fiction.
Author : Olivier Tallec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592701278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Waterloo & Trafalgar written by Olivier Tallec and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays two soldiers separated by two walls who spy on each other day and night until one day they finally meet face-to-face.
Author : Stanley Waterloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Ab written by Stanley Waterloo and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Joanna Rickert-Hall
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459742923
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Waterloo You Never Knew written by Joanna Rickert-Hall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful — real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence? Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer. Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed.
Author : Georgette Heyer
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402234287
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book An Infamous Army written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of battle, passions are running high... IN THE SUMMER OF 1815, with Napolean Bonaparte marching down from the north, Brussels is a whirlwind of parties, balls and soirees. In the swirling social scene surrounding the Duke of Wellington and his noble aides de camp, no one attracts more attention than the beautiful, outrageous young widow Lady Barbara Childe. On their first meeting, dashing Colonel Charles Audley proposes to her, but even their betrothal doesn't calm her wild behavior. Finally, with the Battle of Waterloo raging just miles away, civilians fleeing and the wounded pouring back into the town, Lady Barbara discovers where her heart really lies, and like a true noblewoman, she rises to the occasion, and to the demands of love, life and war... "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."—Katie Fforde "A brilliant achievement...vivid, accurate, dramatic...the description of Waterloo is magnificent."—Daily Mail "My favorite historical novelist."—Margaret Drabble
Author : Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468315404
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Waterloo written by Paul O'Keeffe and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus). In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And for Napoleon, there was no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.
Author : Jan Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750548793
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)
Download or read book The Women of Waterloo Bridge written by Jan Casey and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1940. After her fiance breaks off their engagement, Evelyn decides to do her part for the war effort by signing up for construction work on Waterloo Bridge. Grieving after her little boy dies in an air raid, Gwen is completely lost when her husband sends their younger children to the countryside for safety. Enlisting as a construction worker, she is partnered with cheerful Evelyn. The two women strike up a heartwarming friendship. Musical prodigy Joan's life has always been dictated by her controlling mother. When an affair nearly ends in scandal, Joan finally takes her life into her own hands. She soon finds work at Waterloo Bridge. Yet there are other troubles for her to overcome?...
Author : Ralph Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
