عنوان

The longest afternoon :

شابک

0465064825

شابک

9780465064823

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The longest afternoon :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the 400 men who decided the Battle of Waterloo /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Brendan Simms

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvii, 186 pages :

ساير جزييات

maps ;

ابعاد

22 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Prelude -- For King and Fatherland -- A Tragedy of Errors -- Bolting the Barn Door -- Inferno -- Hand to Hand -- "Heat and centre of the strife" -- Legacy: A "German Victory"?

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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 decide the future of Europe -- Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington is on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, which dominated a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms recounts how these 400-odd riflemen beat back wave after wave of French infantry until finally forced to withdraw, but only after holding up Napoleon for so long that he lost the overall contest. Their actions decided the most influential battle in European history. - Jacket flap

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Four hundred men who decided the Battle of Waterloo

موضوع مستند نشده

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Simms, Brendan

تاريخ عمليات

20150318113828.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y