Battle Referenced: Battle of Waterloo
Book Description:
The biography of the great soldier-statesman Napoleon His battles (Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo…) are among the greatest in history, but Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the […]
Book Description:
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the “point of maximum danger.” Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has […]
