The Campaign of Waterloo A Military History. This item is unavailable.The Campaign of Waterloo A Military History

A smart, scarce, first edition of this detailed analytical history of Napoleon"s Hundred-Days campaign, delivered from a strictly military and impartial perspective, illustrated with two fold-out maps. In the publisher's original navy cloth binding.This volume is a first edition.This edition includes two inserted maps to the rear, one of the theatre of war in Belgium, and the other of the battlefield of Waterloo. Collated, complete.This is a detailed analytical history of Napoleon"s Hundred-Days campaign, delivered from a strictly military perspective. The author promises an impartial, evidence-based reconstruction of events, drawing on French, British and Prussian primary sources and reserving detailed controversies for notes and appendices. Each chapter gives the narrative first, then analytical notes that weigh competing eyewitness accounts.John Codman Ropes (1836-1899) was a Boston lawyer, co-founder of Ropes & Gray, and one of America"s most respected 19ᵗʰ-century military historians. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, particularly to the head and tail of spine, resulting in loss to cloth. Slight rubbing to boards, with the odd faint handling mark. Small area of slight loss to cloth on lower spine from removal of library labels and annotations. Library stamp to front endpapers, title and preface page from Brasenose College Library Oxford. Small ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, slightly age toned, with the odd handling mark and spot to fore edge. The odd pencil inscription from former students to pages. Very Good.…