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The longest afternoon : the four hundred men who decided the Battle of Waterloo
- Title
- The longest afternoon : the four hundred men who decided the Battle of Waterloo / Brendan Simms.
- Author
- Simms, Brendan
- Publication
- London, England : Allen Lane, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 127 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- 1815. Deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. The battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. Simms recounts how their actions alone decided the most influential battle in European history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-95) and index.
- Contents
- Prelude -- For King and Fatherland -- A tragedy of errors -- Bolting the barn door -- Inferno -- Hand to hand -- 'Heat and centre of the strife' -- Legacy: a 'German victory'?
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2026
- ISBN
- 9780241004609
- 0241004608
- 0465064825
- 9780465064823
- 9780141979274 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014495179
- OCLC
- 898433774
- Author
- Simms, Brendan, author.
- Title
- The longest afternoon : the four hundred men who decided the Battle of Waterloo / Brendan Simms.
- Publisher
- London, England : Allen Lane, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-95) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1815
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2026