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Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward... (more)

1815 The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, His German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras

1815 The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, His German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras

by Peter Hofschro?er

16 pages of b/w photos and 36 maps 6 x 9. Previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and battle reports German, British, and Dutch archive material published for the first time Controversial reassessment of the whole campaign Here is a unique reassessment of the Hundred Days and a powerful analysis of the epic confrontation at Waterloo. The first of two volumes, this study is a thoroughly researched examination... (more)

The Final Act: The Roads to Waterloo

by Gregor Dallas

Europe, 1814-1815. The continent grapples with an uneasy peace. The fires of revolution have been banked, the ardor of Napoleonic expansion dimmed. No diplomatic event in history has such a stellar cast: Tsar Alexander, Talleyrand, Wellington, Castlereagh, and Metternich, along with a supporting cast of rogues, mistresses, clairvoyants and spies, they turned Vienna into a theater of intrigue that shaped the face... (more)

Napoleon: The last campaigns, 1813-15James Philip Lawford

Napoleon: The last campaigns, 1813-15

by Peter Young, James Philip Lawford

One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo

One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo

by Alan Schom

On February 26, 1815, Napoleon, exiled Emperor of France--now dressed in a simple green uniform as Colonel of the Grenadiers--stepped aboard the brig L'Inconstant to the wildly enthusiastic cheers of his Elban subjects. Three days later, having barely avoided a British warship and a French naval vessel loyal to the Crown, the L'Inconstant traded the white flag of Elba for the French Tricolor as the rocky coast of... (more)

A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815

A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815

by Allan Mallinson

In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. A Close Run Thing For two decades, since the French Revolution, England and her allies have fought a seemingly endless war to loosen Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. Matthew Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old... (more)

How Far From Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

How Far From Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

by Alistair Horne

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Napoleon And The Hundred Days

by Stephen Coote

A masterly blend of history and novelistic narrative about Napoleon's triumphant return from captivity and the critical days before Waterloo. In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after defeating Napoleon, the news arrived that Napoleon had escaped captivity and was returning to France. Bonaparte-the revolutionary turned emperor and "disturber of... (more)

Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

by Geoffrey Wootten

Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's greatest generals - Napoleon and Wellington. This volume covers the entire campaign including the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny and Wavre, with five full-colour maps and three highly detailed bird's eye views showing decisive moments in the... (more)

Three Napoleonic Battles (Duke Press Paperbacks)Harold T.Parker

Three Napoleonic Battles (Duke Press Paperbacks)

by Harold Talbot Parker

ESCAPE FROM ELBA: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815

ESCAPE FROM ELBA: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815

by Norman Ian MacKenzie

The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once again, at the heels of the fleeing Bourbon king, flushed with victory... (more)

Congress Dances

by Susan Mary Alsop

Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France: The Fédérés of 1815

Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France: The Fédérés of 1815

by R. S. Alexander

Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France is a study of the fédérés, the massive paramilitary political movement that supported Napoleon throughout France in 1815. The first part analyzes the political and social character of the fédérés, their organization, activities, ideology and self-interest. Professor Alexander shows how groups divided by events after 1789 reunited in 1815 in common opposition to... (more)

Maa009 Bluchers Army 1813-15P Young