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"The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth." "With fresh details and interpretations, Jeremy Black places Waterloo within the context of the warfare of the period, showing that Napoleon's modern army was beaten by Britain and Prussia with techniques as old as those of antiquity, including close-quarter combat. Here are the fateful early stages, from Napoleon's strategy of surprise attack - perhaps spoiled by the defection of one of his own commanders - to his younger brother's wasteful efforts assaulting the farm called Hougoumont. And here is the endgame, including Commander Michel Ney's botched cavalry charge against the Anglo-Dutch line and the solid British resistance against a series of French cavalry strikes, with Napoleon "repeating defeat and reinforcing failure."" "More than a guide to an armed conflict, The Battle of Waterloo is a portrait of the men who fought it: Napoleon, the bold emperor who had bullied other rulers and worn down his own army with too many wars, and the steadfast Duke of Wellington, who used superior firepower and a flexible generalship in his march to victory."--BOOK JACKET.… (más)
There's one thing missing in this fine study of Wellington's triumph-a map of some sort, even just a map of the battlefield to aid a reader in visualizing the somewhat complicated topography and layout of the local farms, roads and rivers that made up the theater. There are so many army units to keep track of in several locations, not to mention the Prussian army arriving in support from the east, that a lack of a map is a surprising exclusion. On the other hand, this book is intended more for the reader/scholar who is at least passing familiar with the battle. Other than that, the author does an admirable job in detailing this major battle, as well as supplying a brief but informative history of the Napoleonic wars, his exile and subsequent return to power. The book concludes with a study of the aftermath of the battle and its long term repercussions on European politics and social history. It is very thorough, perhaps a bit too thorough for a reader who rarely reads a detailed history but if that is your thing then 'The Battle of Waterloo' is a good one, no doubt about it. ( )
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At Waterloo, the army that apparently encapsulated change, the French amy of the Emperor Napoleon, was stopped by another, the British army of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, that was essentally an eighteenth-century force in its composition, culture and methods.
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Nevertheless, if modernization and progress are to be useful themes, they can be seen with the victors of Waterloo, those in Wellington's army who endured the hard hours of French attack, before joining the Prussians in putting the French to rout.
"The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth." "With fresh details and interpretations, Jeremy Black places Waterloo within the context of the warfare of the period, showing that Napoleon's modern army was beaten by Britain and Prussia with techniques as old as those of antiquity, including close-quarter combat. Here are the fateful early stages, from Napoleon's strategy of surprise attack - perhaps spoiled by the defection of one of his own commanders - to his younger brother's wasteful efforts assaulting the farm called Hougoumont. And here is the endgame, including Commander Michel Ney's botched cavalry charge against the Anglo-Dutch line and the solid British resistance against a series of French cavalry strikes, with Napoleon "repeating defeat and reinforcing failure."" "More than a guide to an armed conflict, The Battle of Waterloo is a portrait of the men who fought it: Napoleon, the bold emperor who had bullied other rulers and worn down his own army with too many wars, and the steadfast Duke of Wellington, who used superior firepower and a flexible generalship in his march to victory."--BOOK JACKET.
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