The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo - Couverture rigide

Simms, Brendan

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9780241004609: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

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ISBN 10 : 0241004608 ISBN 13 : 9780241004609

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2014

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The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy. Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and exhausted continent. At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. Unknown either to Napoleon or Wellington the battle would be decided by a small, ordinary group of British and German troops given the task of defending the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte. This book tells their extraordinary story, brilliantly recapturing the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and using previously untapped eye-witness reports. Through determination, cunning and fighting spirit, some four hundred soldiers held off many thousands of French and changed the course of history.

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Brendan Simms is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat and the universally praised Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, which was published in 2013. He is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge.

Revue de presse :

A superb little book that is micro-history at its best (Paul O’Keeffe Washington Post)

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