Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble (Making History) |
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 | This book is excellent for its concise approach to a comples subject.
I like his new explanation for the start of the French Cavalry charges commencing but also for his sympathetic understanding of Marshall Ney's predicament at Quatre Bras when he pinpoints battle fatigue as a lokely explanation of Ney's behaviour. It fits in well with Ney's prodigious feats on the retreat from Moscow and his subsequent campaigns in 1813.
However like all historians he does not understand Marshall Grouchy's predicament when he was specifically ordered by Napoleon to got to Wavre. You have only to look at the treatment meted out by Napoleon to those Marshalls who displeased him such as Junot to appreciate what he might have done to those who disobeyed his orders. Direct disobedience of orders is a serious military crime! You just do not do it.
Altogether well worth the money and a good introduction to Waterloo for those who have not studied it before.
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Written by Andrew Roberts.
Published 07 February 2005.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
rrp £12.99.
160 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0007190751
ISBN-13: 9780007190751 | |
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