The French at Waterloo—Eyewitness Accounts

The French at Waterloo—Eyewitness Accounts
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781526768476
ISBN-13 : 152676847X
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Book Synopsis The French at Waterloo—Eyewitness Accounts by : Andrew W. Field

Download or read book The French at Waterloo—Eyewitness Accounts written by Andrew W. Field and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military historian and expert on the Waterloo campaign presents a fascinating selection of firsthand accounts never before published in English. Andrew Field has written several important volumes on the Battle of Waterloo from the French perspective. Now he takes his pioneering work a step further by publishing these accounts, with all their vivid and personal detail, in full. This volume features Napoleons own description of the battle, as well as those of his immediate household, the Imperial headquarters, and members of 1st Corps. Readers can now engage with these crucial firsthand perspectives and compare them to those of the allied armies. They will also gain insight into the trauma that the French eyewitnesses went through as they tried to explain how they lost a battle they claim they had been on the point of winning. Napoleons own version of events, one of the first to be published in France, was used as the basis of many subsequent histories that ignore or gloss over his many dubious claims. His account of his actions on that decisive day, and the accounts of his close associates, make fascinating reading.


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