The Hundred Days: Napoleon's Last Campaign From Eye-Witness Accounts
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Book: Good
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the spring of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte made his audacious return from exile on Elba, igniting one of the most dramatic and consequential episodes in European history — a period now immortalised as The Hundred Days. Compiled, edited, and translated by Antony Brett-James, this gripping anthology presents the final campaign of the French Emperor through the raw, unfiltered voices of those who witnessed it firsthand, from the triumphant march on Paris to the catastrophic defeat at Waterloo. Drawing on memoirs, letters, and dispatches from soldiers, officers, and civilians on both sides of the conflict, the work reconstructs the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of Napoleon's last gamble with extraordinary immediacy and authenticity. Brett-James, a distinguished military historian, brings rigorous scholarship and a masterful editorial hand to this remarkable mosaic of personal testimony, allowing the drama to unfold through the perspectives of those who lived it rather than through the detached lens of retrospective analysis. The result is a vivid, multi-voiced chronicle that illuminates the human cost of empire and the razor's edge on which history so often turns. For anyone captivated by the Napoleonic era, this volume poses an enduring question: how close did the world come to a very different outcome on the fields of Waterloo?
Author: Antony Brett-James
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the spring of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte made his audacious return from exile on Elba, igniting one of the most dramatic and consequential episodes in European history — a period now immortalised as The Hundred Days. Compiled, edited, and translated by Antony Brett-James, this gripping anthology presents the final campaign of the French Emperor through the raw, unfiltered voices of those who witnessed it firsthand, from the triumphant march on Paris to the catastrophic defeat at Waterloo. Drawing on memoirs, letters, and dispatches from soldiers, officers, and civilians on both sides of the conflict, the work reconstructs the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of Napoleon's last gamble with extraordinary immediacy and authenticity. Brett-James, a distinguished military historian, brings rigorous scholarship and a masterful editorial hand to this remarkable mosaic of personal testimony, allowing the drama to unfold through the perspectives of those who lived it rather than through the detached lens of retrospective analysis. The result is a vivid, multi-voiced chronicle that illuminates the human cost of empire and the razor's edge on which history so often turns. For anyone captivated by the Napoleonic era, this volume poses an enduring question: how close did the world come to a very different outcome on the fields of Waterloo?