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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simms, Brendan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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