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Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Roberts, Andrew
Foreman, Amanda
Jardine, Lisa

Paperback

Series: Making History (Paperback)

General World HistoryGerman HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 000719076X
ISBN13: 9780007190768
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Feb 6 2006
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world - Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

In 'Waterloo', Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also a startling interrogation into the methodology of history - is it possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint? What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended forever one of the great personal epics. The career of Napoleon was brought to a shuddering halt on the evening of 18 June 1815. Interwoven in the clear-cut narrative are exciting revelations brought to light by recent research: accident rather than design led to the crucial cavalry debacle that lost the battle. Amongst the all-too-human explanation for the blunder that cost Napoleon his throne, Roberts sets the political, strategic and historical scene, and finally shows why Waterloo was such an important historical punctuation mark.

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