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Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Door Andrew Roberts

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#372258-ZE17
Titel	Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Auteur	Roberts, Andrew
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : HarperCollins Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0007190751
ISBN13	9780007190751
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history. In Waterloo, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also a startling interrogation into the methodology of history is it possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint? What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended forever one of the great personal epics. The career of Napoleon was brought to a shuddering halt on the evening of 18 June 1815. Interwoven in the clear-cut narrative are exciting revelations brought to light by recent research: accident rather than design led to the crucial cavalry debacle that lost the battle. Amongst the all-too-human explanation f... (Lees verder)or the blunder that cost Napoleon his throne, Roberts sets the political, strategic and historical scene, and finally shows why Waterloo was such an important historical punctuation mark. The generation after Waterloo saw the birth of the modern era: ghastly as the carnage here was, henceforth the wars of the future were fought with infinitely more ghastly methods of trenches, machine-guns, directed starvation, concentration camps, and aerial bombardment. By the time of the Great War, chivalry was utterly dead. The honour of bright uniform and tangible spirit of elan met their final dance at Waterloo."
Pagina's	143
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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