PublishedOxford University Press, March 2015 |
ISBN9780199663255 |
FormatHardcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions22.4cm × 14.8cm × 1.8cm |
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one that finally ended his imperial dreams. But this book is not only about a battle and its place in history. It also offers insights into the afterlife of Waterloo and its contrasting place in the memory of the combatant nations. In Britain and across the British Empire it became an iconic battle, the by-word for an incisive victory, with Wellington the general who had defeated the greatest military leader
of his generation. But in Prussia it was no more than a footnote to the victory at Leipzig, in Holland a vehicle for the House of Orange. And in France it was the epitome of a heroic defeat that served
to sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.
