The Battle of Waterloo

From a period that reveled in portraying splendor and heroism has come massive, often magnificent documentation--portraits, battle panoramas, caricatures, quick sketches--for Christopher Herold's crisp account of the Hundred Days in the context of Napoleon's career; as with his (and their) earlier Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon, the format is the function. It works well: here (in prose and pictures) is Napoleon cowering on the way to Elba, cocking an ear to the Congress of Vienna, turning young lads into military marionettes; here are the heavily cloaked wounded led through the streets, a conscript laden with plunder, still, pale faces on the battlefield at midnight. This has a larger historical interest and less immediate, tactical involvement than the volume in the Macmillan Battle Books series, but the maps assist the narrative in following the action.

Year

1967

Language

English

Series

A Horizon caravel book

Publisher

American Heritage Pub. Co.

Editions

1

Pages

153

ISBN

9780304916030

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