WATERLOO

From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle this is the true story of Waterloo.On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat.Th e blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because unti l the even...[Llegir més]