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Pros
The author does a good job off explaining the significance of the battle to subsequent events. Without burdening the reader with a lot of detail, it explains what happened. This hi-story teaches us that weather could be an important factor after all, ... Read More
Top notch. Concise and appropriately plain writing. Well written, concise and to the point.
Cons
Author spends more than half the book relating the events from napoleon’s exile on elba until waterloo. This book is a facile, shallow treatment of a complex subject written at a sixth-grade reading level. The battle of waterloo is reduced to a few pa... Read More
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Quality
Victory will march at full speed; the eagle, with the national colors, will fly from steeple to steeple, even to the towers of notre-dame.
Wellington rode up and down, encouraging the troops, with the solid belief that the prussians were coming.
It was only possible because of then-old hegemon france's great population number with the newly-born citizen-forces recruit system.
His expertise in munitions was to dominate europe with the century-old hegemon france’s advanced military hardware.
Packaging/appearance
Typically, there should have been two lines of cavalry, one to protect the guns, and one to attack while the guns fired into the squares.
The horses were not going to throw themselves into the bayonets, the men with spent rifles were well protected while they reloa... Read More
Competitiveness
More than that, we will discover a battle that changed the world.
A quick review of napolean's conclusion as a world leader.
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I am surprised to read that it was such a combination of poor planning and poor execution on the part of the napoleonic forces
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As is said in this book it could have happened for many reasons but that it happened this way at all suprises me
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It is no wonder that wellington won
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This is not to say that i doubt what is written here
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I have come to expect a great summation of events in these books
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Im sure im not the only one who is spurrred on to do more reading and more study
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The facts about waterloo are well established
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I never had a clear idea of what happened at waterloo
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