Synopses & Reviews
A "desperate business" was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on June 18, 1815. Ian Fletcher tells the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on to the ridge at Mont St Jean until their Prussian allies arrived to put the seal on one of the most decisive victories in military history.
Synopsis
This is the story of the Waterloo campaign from the perspective of the British Army. Uniquely, it begins with the break-up of Wellington's army at the end of the Peninsular War, continues with the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and then examines the fighting that followed, as Wellington's army pushed on to Paris
About the Author
Ian Fletcher was born in London in 1957. He is the author of In Hell Before Daylight, The Waters of Oblivion, Craufurd's Light Division, Gentlemen's Sons, Fields of Fire, Wellington's Foot Guards, Wellington's Regiments, and Galloping at Everything.