Brendan Simms

Broschiertes Buch

The Longest Afternoon

The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

Beschreibung

At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. This book tells their story and recaptures the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and uses various eye-witness reports.

Autor

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present, and Hitler: Only the World Was Enough.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780141979267
• ISBN-10: 0141979267
• Artikelnr.: 42078312

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