Napoléon: la dernière bataille
A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novelLes Miserables.
Acclaim for Brendan Simms' Europe- The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present- 'Breath-stopping . . . This is top-down European history, diplomatic and political, seen from the soaring eagle's eye. But what an eagle; and what an eye.
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, ...
This intriguing idea is an open invitation for taking a closer look at what might have been in June of 1815. This volume is the first modern full length alternative history written about the Waterloo campaign but it does not stop there.