![]() Roberts’ conclusion is an after-action report supported by facts and evidence developed from two centuries of examination of the battle. These excerpts from personal histories lend immediacy and authenticity to the narrative. His description of the campaign and battle is engaging, detailed and interspersed with excerpts from the memoirs and letters of men who fought on both sides, from the commanders down to the private soldiers. Roberts has written a compelling narrative of one of the most consequential battles in the history of Western Civilization. The Duke of Wellington describing his victory at Waterloo ‘a damned nice thing – the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life’. Napoleon to his senior commanders the morning of the battle of Waterloo But I tell you that Wellington is a bad general and the English are bad troops.’ The whole business would be, he assured them, ‘l’affaire d’un déjeuner’ (a picnic). Just because you have been beaten by Wellington,’ he told them, ‘you think he’s a good general. ![]()
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