Dan Snow, Peter Snow, National Army Museum

The Battle of Waterloo Experience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

t Blücher and his Prussians? What was the main cause of the French defeat?

The Battle of Waterloo Experience contains 20 rare or previously unpublished removable documents of historic importance, 80 period paintings, etchings and illustrations, 20 colour photographs of Waterloo militaria from the National Army Museum's unparalleled collections and a removable booklet featuring 6 specially commissioned full-colour battle and campaign maps. It puts history in your hands.

20 REMOVABLE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE: - A campaign journal of a colonel of Hussars - The Duke of Wellington's handwritten orders to the commander defending the farm of Hougoumont - The poignant letters written to family and loved ones by officers and men shortly after the battle - The paybook of a soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard - The Times of 22 June 1815, containing a complete transcript of Wellington's renowned Waterloo Dispatch.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deutsch (Andre) / Welbeck Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 302mm x 260mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1409g
• ISBN-13: 9780233004471
• ISBN-10: 0233004475
• Artikelnr.: 41753833

Autorenporträt

Snow, Peter§ is a highly respected journalist, author and broadcaster. He was ITN's Diplomatic and Defence Correspondent from 1966 to 1979, and presented BBC's

Inhaltsangabe

Background - The Hundred Days - Napoleon and His Army - The Allied Commanders and Their Armies - Ligny and Quatre Bras - The Battle Begins: The Fight for Hougoumont - D'Erlon's Infantry Attack and the British Cavalry Charge - The Great French Cavalry Attacks - The Arrival of the Prussians - Wellington's Crisis: The Fall of La Haye Sainte - The Charge and Repulse of the Imperial Guard - The French Rout and the Human Costs - The End for Napoleon: Aftermath.
Includes 20 removable documents.