Waterloo: The Aftermath

by Paul O'Keeffe

Book Overview

In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468311301
• ISBN13: 9781468311303
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.1"