Waterloo the 1815 campaign. Volume 2 : from Waterloo to the restoration of peace in Europe / John Hussey ; foreword by Major General Mungo Melvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussey, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (524 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, tables, diagrams

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, England : Greenhill Books, 2017.

Summary:

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer MedalShortlisted for Military History Monthly's "Book of the Year" AwardThe first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250, 000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war, and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blcher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleons operational plan is analyzed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it). Accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June, and the volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

1-78438-203-5

1-78438-201-9

1-78438-202-7