Waterloo: The Aftermath

The consequences of Napoleon's most famous defeat are explored in this "highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle's devastating results" (Kirkus).

In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or...