New York : Harper Perennial, 2006, c2005
143 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Of course I've heard of Waterloo and had a vague idea of when and where it happened. Also, I've encountered the battle of Waterloo in Les Miserable by Hugo and in Vanity Fair by Thackeray, but never read a history of it. I enjoyed and appreciated this short book by Andrew Roberts. This was a great, short and very clear account of the battle. It really helps the reader appreciate the momentous stakes of the battle, the terrible violence of the conflict, as well as the ways in which the outcome of the battle could have well gone to the French forces under Napoleon instead of to the European forces under Wellington.
It is definitely a short, helpful history of Waterloo that would be useful to any high school student wanting to know more about the last, terrible battle that Napoleon waged - the outcome of which brought the Napoleonic era to a close.
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