Brendan Simms

The Longest Afternoon

The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: London, England: Allen Lane, 2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780465064823
• ISBN-10: 0465064825
• Artikelnr.: 41361783

Autorenporträt

Brendan Simms is a professor in the History of International Relations and fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He is the author of eight previous books, including The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo and Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He lives in Cambridge, UK.

Rezensionen

The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources - the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants - to produce a coherent and gripping narrative Nick Lezard The Guardian