"Book Review - Waterloo: The French Perspective " Topic

"Ever since acquiring what has grown into something of an obsession with Napoleonic history in childhood – and for me it all started with Waterloo – I've always been more drawn to the French than the English. It was after all their revolution that precipitated the whole period and and their leader who gives it his name.

So as the years have passed and the book collection has grown, it's always been something of a disappointment for me that Waterloo has, until recently, been almost always treated, within the voluminous English language literature, from the Allied, or to be more accurate, the British perspective. This has galled me to such a degree that until very recently I've deliberately sidelined the campaign that was my original intro to the period, and instead explored such campaigns as those of 1809 (France vs. Austria) and 1812 (France and her allies/vassals vs. Russia)…"
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Armand

This is a great book and I've been fortunate to have Andy Field show me the battlefield. He has also done a book on Quatre Bras which we walked this year having watched the 200th anniversary.

Particularly interesting is D'erlons attack formation and how far the French penetrate the ridge line before being hit by cavalry.

This could be very, very interesting! Thanks for posting!

Yes a great read and very informative. Highly recommended, as is the companion Quatre Bras volume.

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

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Armand