1815: The Waterloo Campaign The German Victory from Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon

Peter Hofschröer

ISBN 10: 1853673684 / ISBN 13: 9781853673689

Published by Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, 1999

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Very slight rubbing to wrapper, no fading or tears, not price clipped. No inscriptions, illustrated, bright and clean internally, appears almost unread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1815: The Waterloo Campaign The German Victory from Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon
• Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853673684
• ISBN 13: 9781853673689
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 26 ounces

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Synopsis

25 illustrations, 25 maps 6 x 9 Demonstrates the decisive German contribution to victory at Waterloo Unpublished German eyewitness accounts and regimental reports Covers the battles of Waterloo, Wavre and the taking of Paris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 Hofschrer, in this second volume of his masterly study of 1815, challenges the accepted version of events at the battle of Waterloo. He demonstrtaes 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 Arme.

Drawing on previously unpublished accounts, Hofschrer gives not only the Prussian perspective of their march to Waterloo and decisive attack on Napoleons flank, but also details of the actions fought by some of the 25,000 Germans in Wellingtons British armymore than a third of the Dukes 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, Hofschrer examines the battle at Wavre, the Allied offensive into France, the taking of Paris and the sieges across northern France.

1815: The Waterloo CampaignThe German Victory is a definitive work on an epic confrontation by one of todays leading military writers.

About the Author

Peter Hofschrer is an authority on Prussian and German armies of the Napoleonic era. The first volume of his two-volume study of the Waterloo campaign, 1815: The Waterloo CampaignWellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, was recently published to critical acclaim.