Waterloo : Wellington, Napoleon, and the battle that saved Europe
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
940.2742 CORRI
1 available
940.2742 CORRI
1 available
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxiii, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index.
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In time for the bicentennial in 2015, a veteran historian brings the campaign and battle, its armies and their commanders, to fresh and vivid life in his brilliant new military history of one of the key battles in world history. Wellington remarked that Waterloo was "a damned nice thing," meaning uncertain or finely balanced. He was right. For his part, Napoleon reckoned "the English are bad troops and this affair is nothing more that eating breakfast." He was wrong-and this gripping and dramatic narrative history shows just how wrong. Fought on Sunday, June 18th, 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between imperial France and her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory for the Allied armies of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians, led by the stalwart Marshal Blucher, it brought about the French emperor's final exile to St. Helena and cleared the way for Britain to become the dominant military power in the world.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Corrigan, G. (2014). Waterloo: Wellington, Napoleon, and the battle that saved Europe . Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Corrigan, Gordon. 2014. Waterloo: Wellington, Napoleon, and the Battle That Saved Europe. Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Corrigan, Gordon. Waterloo: Wellington, Napoleon, and the Battle That Saved Europe Pegasus Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Corrigan, Gordon. Waterloo: Wellington, Napoleon, and the Battle That Saved Europe Pegasus Books, 2014.
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