Napoleon, France and Waterloo: The Eagle Rejected 1473870828, 9781473870826

So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left

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Napoleon, France and Waterloo: The Eagle Rejected
1473870828, 9781473870826

Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history and it has given rise to a vast and varied literature. The strateg

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How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on Fr

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Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the

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The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals

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From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achi

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It is often forgotten that Britain's struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and the extensive oper

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The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world – Parthian and Persian –

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