Waterloo: The Decisive Victory

by His Grace the Duke of Wellington (Foreword by), Nick Lipscombe (Editor)

Overview

Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces.

Ten articles by internationally renowned historians examine the battle from different angles, from the microcosm of the bitter fighting for the fortified farmhouse of Hougoumont through to a wider perspective of the 100-day campaign in its entirety.

The official publication of the Waterloo 200 organization, slipcased and highly collectible, Waterloo: The Decisive Victory offers a unique and authoritative history of one of the most important battles in world history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472810472
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Colonel Nick Lipscombe was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has a degree in business studies and an MSc in defence studies. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1980. During his 30 years in the British Army he has seen considerable operational service with the British and American armies, as well as with NATO and the UN. He was awarded the US Bronze Star in 2006. A keen interest in military history followed his academic studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst concentrating on the Napoleonic era and the Peninsular War in particular. He is Chairman of Peninsular War 200, the UK official organisation for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Peninsular War.
Colonel Nicolas (Nick) Lipscombe MSc FRHistS served for 34 years in the British Army. He is an accomplished historian, author and lecturer. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016. His works include the award-winning Peninsular War Atlas and Concise History, Wellington's Guns, Wellington Invades France, the official Waterloo 200 Bicentenary compendium, Wellington's Eastern Front and most recently, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51. He is a tutor at the University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education and an active member of numerous historical societies. He lives in Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Foreword by his Grace the Duke of Wellington
Introduction by Peter Snow
Chronology

1 The Waterloo Campaign: The Strategic Background by Jeremy Black
2 The Battles of Ligny and Quartre Bras: Napoleon's Lost Opportunities by Julian Spilsbury
3 The Commanders by Philip Haythornthwaite
4 The Battle: The Armies, their Weapons and Tactics by Mark Adkin
5 Waterloo Eyewitnesses: Different Perspectives by Natalia Griffon de Pleineville
6 Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte: Points d'appui or Pivotal Bastions? by Nick Lipscombe
7 The Calvary Charges by Ian Fletcher
8 The Prussian Army at Waterloo by Charles Esdaile
9 La Garde Recule! Napoleon's Last Throw of the Dice by Andrew Field
10 The Legacy of Waterloo: War and Politics in Europe in the 19th Century by Huw Davies

Notes
Orders of Battle
Bibliography