The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

by Brendan Simms

Book Overview

From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465064825
• ISBN13: 9780465064823
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"