Battle of Waterloo
Title: Napoleon: A Life
Author: Andrew Roberts
Book Description:
The biography of the great soldier-statesman Napoleon His battles (Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo…) are among the greatest in history, but Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is […]
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Title: The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Author: John Keegan
Book Description:
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the “point of maximum danger.” Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. […]
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