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The Longest Afternoon : the 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo.
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe, with Napoleon's forc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe, with Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465039944 0465039944 9780465064823 0465064825 9780241004609 0241004608 |