Stories Of Waterloo

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062312073
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterloo written by Bernard Cornwell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 245 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 : Ray Davies
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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 : Olivier Tallec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592701278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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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 : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465039944
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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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 : Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468315404
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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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 : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Great Battles
ISBN 13 : 0199663254
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterloo written by Alan I. Forrest and published by Great Battles. This book was released on 2015 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.

Author : Joanna Rickert-Hall
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459742923
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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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 241 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 : Barney White-Spunner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471102912
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Living Valour written by Barney White-Spunner and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, for the first time a modern British history tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental officers and soldiers whose bravery and resolution achieved victory. The author has used many unpublished sources, letters and diaries of ordinary British soldiers, in the vein of Stephen Ambrose's highly successful Band of Brothers.. With a concise, fast-moving account covering, ex-Commander of the British Army Barney White-Spunner tells the story through the experiences of those who fought there and their families, offering his unique perspective on the events. The story focuses on mens' personal feelings and their relationships, with each other, their families, their leaders and their enemies. It tells the stories of their lives, what they had left behind and why and what they went back to. It vividly captures their daily routine, their life in camp and how they fought at first hand, their fear, excitement and exhaustion. The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most significant ever fought by a British army, but it was also one of the most bloody with about 50,000 men losing their lives over three days. What was it like for those who fought and for their families waiting at home? This is their story.

Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Waterloo written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Waterloo, and Other Tales written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: