Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles, (Paperback)

from Philip100

Once again Bernard Cornwell has shown his depth as an author. Waterloo is a very easy read not dry or boring as a lot of books about battles can be. It is well written and not biased in the telling of how the battle progressed from start to finish. Very good book.

from tommi180744

June 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes his Elba prison, returns to France and rapidly draws to him one last Grand Armee as he once more tries to seize power & control of Europe. Cornwell's book is a really superb account of the most vital land battle in Western Europe in the early 19th Century: t...

from JeffV

In the forward, Cornwell (one of my favorite authors of historical fiction) poses the question, "why another book on Waterloo?" It is, after all, one of the most studied and written about battles. Given that he poses that question, we would expect he has something meaningful to add to the volume ...

from TBCrattie

Cornwell is very good at doing the punchy narrative. This book really moves along. I'm giving it 4 stars, though, because I find Cornwell's prose a bit too purple. I prefer David Howarth's "Waterloo: A Near Run Thing". Cornwell's book is also good in the sense that it gives a thorough descriptio...

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I enjoyed this military history of the battle of Waterloo. This battle is not a part of our history in the States, but the word "Waterloo" in Europe seems to carry as much weight as the word "Gettysburg" carries here. Important. Bloody. A battle of attrition. Determining the future. Those last fo...