« Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles » Bernard Cornwell

From the New York Times bestselling author comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two–hundreth anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On June 18, 1815, the armies of France, Britain, and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre–Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood–soaked battle to which the town gave its name would become a landmark in European history.