The Longest Afternoon by Brendan Simms
At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. This book tells their story and recaptures the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and uses various eye-witness reports.
The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into itOne can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources - the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants - to produce a coherent and gripping narrative -- Nick Lezard * The Guardian *
A superb little book that is micro-history at its best -- Paul O’Keeffe * Washington Post *
Mr. Simms's fluent and meticulously researched narrative provides enough context to engage not only specialists, but also readers unfamiliar with the broader historical background...by focusing upon a particular episode, rather than the bigger picture, Mr. Simms manages to reflect the grim reality of Waterloo better than some more comprehensive surveys -- Stephen Brumwell * The Wall Street Journal *
[Simms] tells more about realities of boots-on-the-ground combat than any other Waterloo book I have encountered. A five-gun read. -- Joseph C. Goulden * Washington Times *
A superb little book that is micro-history at its best -- Paul O’Keeffe * Washington Post *
Mr. Simms's fluent and meticulously researched narrative provides enough context to engage not only specialists, but also readers unfamiliar with the broader historical background...by focusing upon a particular episode, rather than the bigger picture, Mr. Simms manages to reflect the grim reality of Waterloo better than some more comprehensive surveys -- Stephen Brumwell * The Wall Street Journal *
[Simms] tells more about realities of boots-on-the-ground combat than any other Waterloo book I have encountered. A five-gun read. -- Joseph C. Goulden * Washington Times *
Brendan Simms is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat and the universally praised Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, which was published in 2013. He is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141979267 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141979267 |
| Title | The Longest Afternoon |
| Author | Brendan Simms |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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