1815, the Waterloo Campaign : the German Victory: From Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon-- Demonstrates the decisive German contribution to victory at Waterloo -- Unpublished German eyewitness accounts and regimental reports -- Covers the battles of Waterloo, Wavre and the taking of Paris Peter Hofschroer, in this second volume of his masterly study of 1815, challenges the accepted version of events at the battle of Waterloo. He demonstrates convincingly that Allied victory was due not to steadfast British infantry repelling the French, but to the timely arrival of Prussian troops who stole victory from Napoleon and sealed the fate of the last Grande Armee. Drawing on previously unpublished accounts, Hofschroer gives not only the Prussian perspective of their march to Waterloo and decisive attack on Napoleon's flank, but also details of the actions fought by some of the 25,000 Germans in Wellington's 'British' army -- more than a third of the Duke's force. A gripping narrative of astonishing detail captures such key episodes of Waterloo as La Haye Sainte, Papelotte, Hougoumont and the Prussian struggle with the Imperial Guard for Plancenoit. In addition, Hofschroer examines the battle at Wavre, the Allied offensive into France, the taking of Paris and the sieges across northern France. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign-The German Victory is a definitive work on an epic confrontation by one of today's leading military writers. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThis book is the second book by this author on the Waterloo campaign. It begins on the end of the battle of Ligny, Dawn June 17th, 1815and carries matters up to the Surrender of the new French ... Read full review
Contents
Illustrations Maps and Tables | 7 |
Comparative Table of Ranks | 13 |
The Confusion of Battle | 19 |
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| Title | 1815, the Waterloo Campaign : the German Victory: From Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon Volume 2 of 1815, the Waterloo Campaign, Peter Hofschröer Volume 2 of 1815: The Waterloo Campaign. “The” German Victory : from Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon, Peter Hofschröer Greenhill books |
| Author | Peter Hofschröer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Greenhill Books, 1999 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Nov 4, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1853673684, 9781853673689 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / General |
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