Prelude to Waterloo : Quatre Bras: the French perspective
Field, Andrew W.2014
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In-depth study of the critical battle that preceded Waterloo, based on French primary sources never published before in English. Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle this book questions previous assumptions and viewpoints. - The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign u to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Bl2cher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo itself. And too often the clash at Quatre Bras has been seen mainly through the eyes of the British and their allies u the viewpoint of the French has been neglected. It is this weakness in the history of the battle that Andrew Field focuses on in this original and highly readable new study. Drawing on French eyewitness recollections and later commentary, he reconstructs the French experience of the battle u and the French interpretation of it. He quotes extensively, and subjects to critical analysis, the conflicting accounts written by Napoleon and his subordinates as they sought justify their decisions and actions at this pivotal moment in the campaign.
Main title:
Prelude to Waterloo : Quatre Bras: the French perspective / Andrew W. Field.
Author:
Field, Andrew W., author
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2014.
Collation:
223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783463848
Dewey class:
940.2742940.27
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
276906