Name: Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
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Author: Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 9780062312068

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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Cornwell

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780062312068

Synopsis "Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles"

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought--a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history.In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles--as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end.Published 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.

Bernard Cornwell

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Bernard Cornwell (Londres, 1944) es un prolífico autor británico de novela histórica, famoso por sagas como las de Richard Sharpe (Guerras Napoleónicas) y las "Saxon Stories" (Unificación de Inglaterra), que se publicaron en EE. UU. tras mudarse allí por su esposa americana y no poder trabajar, comenzando a escribir novelas históricas como forma de ganarse la vida legalmente, combinando gran documentación con entretenimiento y dando lugar a adaptaciones televisivas como The Last Kingdom.

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