Walking Waterloo: A Guide

Tour the Belgian battleground where Napoleon was defeated-with historical background, maps, archival images, and more.

In this book, the acclaimed author of Napoleon's Wars provides a new guide to the Battle of Waterloo that presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible-through their own words. In a series of walks, he describes in vivid detail what happened in each location on June 18, 1815 and quotes at length from eyewit...