The News from Waterloo

by Brian Cathcart

Book Overview

The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon. This is a tragi-comic midsummer's tale that begins amidst terrible carnage and weaves through a world of politics and military convention, enterprise and roguery, frustration, doubt and jealousy, to end spectacularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571315267
• ISBN13: 9780571315260
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.