Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny - Couverture souple

Clayton, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349123012 ISBN 13 : 9780349123011

Editeur : Abacus, 2015

Synopsis

The second addictive adventure in Tim O'Rourke's acclaimed Sammy Carter series It's been a year since Samantha Carter blasted back to 1888, barely escaping with her life. Now, returned to present-day London with only her nymphomaniac flatmate for company, she's starting to believe that everything - the blood-curdling vampires, her strange and sudden skills with a gun, even her mysterious lover Harry - was nothing but a dream. Just when Sammy is about to lose all hope that her friends and memories were real, it finally happens again. This time she's pulled back to a city she does not recognise: a London in the grip of a terrible plague, where death haunts the night and a deeper, darker threat lurks underground, waiting for its chance ...Fighting side by side with her friends once again, Sammy encounters horrors beyond her imagining; yet what really terrifies her are the endless questions, one most of all: who is she really? Torn between the life she longs for and the life she can believe in, Sammy must decide whether she's brave enough to risk everything, even her heart ...3 00,000 books sold 4000 five star reviews Discover an underground phenomenon Discover Tim O'Rourke 'A definite 4 stars. I hugely recommend it to those who already love supernatural genres, go get reading!' -The Guardian 'I don't think he could write a bad book if he tried at this point.' - Goodreads 'I need to read the sequel right now. I cannot wait for the release date!' - A Readers Review Blog 'Vampire Shift will leave you on the edge of your seat, gripping your Kindle.' - Paranormal Wasteland Book Reviews 'Do not think you can just read this book ...no, you cannot, you will live in it ...you will fall into it and be a part of the story.' Delirium.blogspot.com Book Reviews

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'A fabulous story, superbly told' Max Hastings

The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end.

Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty.

An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon.

Revue de presse :

Stirring . . . a fabulous story, superbly told (Max Hastings Sunday Times)

A quite brilliant piece of meticulous historical detective work . . . I have no doubt that this book will become a classic (Scotland on Sunday)

An incisive analysis of how the battle unravelled and why (The Times)

Clayton makes the fog of war central to the narrative; we are pitched into the chaos and din of Waterloo . . . We experience it as Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary soldier would have done (Daily Telegraph)

Tim Clayton not only gives a masterful account of the battle that changed the face of Europe but also sets it in its proper context . . . Clayton manages the difficult trick in military history of providing a blow-by-blow account without losing the flow of the narrative (Express)

Nuanced, broad, searching and elegant . . . the overall integrity of his scholarship is undeniable. The book may well become the most authoritative account of the four-day campaign (Spectator)

Tim Clayton's book is the best overview of the meeting of the three armies (Simon Heffer New Statesman)

Magnificent and magisterial (Literary Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0349123012
• ISBN 13: 9780349123011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 704