Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

In ‘Waterloo’, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also a startling interrogation into the methodology of history – is it possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint? What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended forever one of the great personal epics. ...