Current purchase price:
£19.99
The first of two ground-breaking, prize-winning volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies and their resolution, examining the problems of feeding and paying for 250,000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the ‘undeclared war’, and how a strategy was thrashed out.
Hussey investigates the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleon’s operational plan is analysed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it) and accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June. The volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.
![]() The Invasion of Sicily 1943 By: Jon Diamond | ![]() Area 51 By: Annie Jacobsen | ![]() Stalag Luft III By: John Grehan |
![]() A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift By: Katie Stossel | ![]() Northamptonshire at War 1939-45 By: Kevin Turton | ![]() Fighting Emperors of Byzantium By: John Carr |
![]() Siege Warfare during the Crusades By: Dr Michael S Fulton | ![]() War in the Mediterranean 1940-43 By: Bernard Ireland | ![]() M29 Weasel Tracked Cargo Carrier & Variants By: David Doyle |