Waterloo Letters: A Selection From Original And Hitherto Unpublished Letters Bearing On The Operations Of The 16Th, 17Th, And 18Th June, 1815, By Officers Who Served In The Campaign

ISBN 10: 9354482732 / ISBN 13: 9789354482731

Published by Alpha Edition, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Waterloo Letters: A Selection From Original And Hitherto Unpublished Letters Bearing On The Operations Of The 16Th, 17Th, And 18Th June, 1815, By Officers Who Served In The Campaign
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354482732
• ISBN 13: 9789354482731
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

On the fields around Waterloo, officers of the British army wrote home in haste, clarity and shock. Their letters were never meant for history. The voices here are raw. Waterloo Letters is a remarkable Waterloo letters anthology, gathering original and once-unpublished battlefield officer correspondence on the crucial days of 16, 17 and 18 June 1815. Compiled by H. T. Siborne from the famed Siborne Waterloo collection, it presents primary source military history that takes the reader from staff tent to shattered ridge, following the movements and doubts of those who served under the Duke of Wellington in the last great clash of Napoleonic Europe. These Napoleonic wars eyewitness accounts, written from bivouac, farmhouse and hospital, illuminate the British army at Waterloo as a living organism: regiments straining to hold the line, commanders reconciling orders with the stubborn realities of ground and weather, allies converging across the roads of Waterloo, Belgium, 1815. For Napoleonic war enthusiasts and a vital resource for military historians, the volume reveals how strategy, confusion, courage and fatigue shaped the Wellington Waterloo campaign history far from the later myths, capturing the texture of campaigning in Napoleonic Europe in the early nineteenth century. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This careful modern edition invites both curious readers and serious collectors of classic military history to encounter Waterloo through the words of those who fought it.