Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815

Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815
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Publisher : Frontline Books
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781783831999
ISBN-13 : 1783831995
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Book Synopsis Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815 by : John Grehan

Download or read book Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815 written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received _ Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon Paris. Europe braced itself once again for war. The allied nations agreed to combine against Napoleon and in May 1815 they began to mass on France's frontiers. The scene was set for the greatest battle the world had yet seen.??Composed of more than 300 eyewitness accounts, official documents, parliamentary debates and newspaper reports, Voices from the Past tells the story of Napoleon's last battles as they were experienced and reported by the men and women involved. ??Heroic cavalry charges, devastating artillery bombardments, terrible injuries, heart-breaking encounters, and amusing anecdotes, written by aristocratic officers and humble privates alike, fill the pages of this ambitious publication. Many of these reports have not been reproduced for almost 200 years.


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