Waterloo: Myth and Reality
- ISBN-10
- 1781593566
- ISBN-13
- 9781781593561
- Series
- Waterloo
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-01
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword
- Author
- Gareth Glover
Description
More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated traditional 'accepted' version being significantly wrong regarding many episodes in the campaign. Oft-repeated claims have morphed into established fact and, with the bicentenary of this famous battle soon to be commemorated, it is high time that these are challenged and finally dismissed.?Gareth Glover has spent a decade uncovering hundreds of previously unpublished eyewitness accounts of the battle and campaign, which have highlighted many of these myths and errors. In this ground-breaking history, based on extensive primary research of all the nations involved, he provides a very readable and beautifully balanced account of the entire campaign while challenging these distorted claims and myths, and he provides clear evidence to back his version of events. ?His thoughtful reassessment of this decisive episode in world history will be stimulating reading for those already familiar with the Napoleonic period and it will form a fascinating introduction for readers who are discovering this extraordinary event for the first time.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852
By Luke Reynolds... The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011); Matilda Greig, Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...
-
Waterloo 1815: Wavre to Plancenoit
By Peter HofschroerTypeset in 10pt Palatino by Mac Style, Nafferton, E. Yorkshire Printed and bound in the UK by CPI Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the Imprints of Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Military, Wharncliffe Local ...
-
The Waterloo Companion
By Mark AdkinKitchen Garden Lost to Baring during the first attack but reoccupied after the repulse of d'Erlon's Corps . Despite the hedge being inferior to the wall for defence , the orchard was held until the garrison remnants withdrew at about ...
-
Waterloo Commanders: Napoleon, Wellington & Blucher
By Andrew UffindellBut the organization, structure and fighting strength of the armies that fought in the battle have received less attention, and this is the subject of Philip Haythornthwaite's detailed, authoritative and engaging study.
-
Waterloo
By Brandon J. BrockwayThe popular slogan, "Waterloo Way Wins," has proven true over the years, and one can feel a sense of pride while looking at the images in this book.
-
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
By Bernard CornwellPublished 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.
-
Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815: History's most famous battle told through eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, parliamentary debate, memoirs and...
By John GrehanBalen, Malcolm, A Model Victory: Waterloo and the Battle for History (Harper Perennial, London, 2005). Bankes, George Nugent [Ed.], The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns (Sampson ...
-
Battle Of Waterloo [Illustrated Edition]
By J. Christopher HeroldRenowned Napoleonic historian, J. Christopher Herold recounts the fascinating details of the great battle of Waterloo which ended the career of the greatest conqueror of modern times—Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.
-
Waterloo 1815 (3): Mont St Jean and Wavre
By John FranklinDrawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed illustrations, this comprehensive volume is the ideal resource for studying the intense fighting at the battles of Waterloo and Wavre, the final, decisive engagements of the ...
-
Waterloo: The Defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard: Henry Clinton, the 2nd Division and the End of a 200-year Old Controversy
By Gareth GloverThis is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published.