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The Longest Afternoon : The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Simms, Brendan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>From the prizewinning author of <i>Europe</i>, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history.</b><br><br> 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 o
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simms, Brendan
- Publisher
- Basic Civitas Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780465064823
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Western, Fiction, Strategy
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (145 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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