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Waterloo: The Aftermath
Paul O'Keeffe
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Description for Waterloo: The Aftermath
paperback. Drawing on a multiplicity of contemporary voices and viewpoints, this book brings into focus the sights, sounds and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
After midnight, 19 June 1815...
On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armée struggles in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; and Napoleon Bonaparte, exhausted and stunned at the scale of his defeat, rode through the darkness towards Paris, abdication and captivity.
In the days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle shaped the consciousness of an age. Drawing on a multiplicity of contemporary voices and viewpoints, Paul O’Keeffe brings into focus as never before the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099563792
SKU
9780099563792
Shipping Time
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About Paul O'Keeffe
Paul O'Keeffe's acclaimed books include biograhies of Wyndham Lewis (Some Sort of Genius, 2000) and Benjamin Robert Haydon (A Genius for Failure, 2009). He lives in Liverpool.
Reviews for Waterloo: The Aftermath
If you buy one book to mark this Waterloo anniversary, buy this one
Gerard DeGroot
The Times
It is all here – and all told with the same verve, eye for anecdote and command of the material. This is a very good book, and a model of how narrative history should be written... anybody remotely interested in ... Read more
Gerard DeGroot
The Times
It is all here – and all told with the same verve, eye for anecdote and command of the material. This is a very good book, and a model of how narrative history should be written... anybody remotely interested in ... Read more