Waterloo: The Aftermath - Hardcover

O'Keeffe, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468311301 ISBN 13: 9781468311303

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2015

Synopsis

Published for the 200th anniversary of the battle, the groundbreaking new account of the last days of the Napoleonic Wars

In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity.

In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.

About this title

About the Authors

PAUL O’KEEFFE is a lecturer and writer. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Liverpool. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including biographies of Wyndham Lewis, the artist Benjamin Robert Hayden, and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

PAUL O’KEEFFE is a lecturer and writer. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Liverpool. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including biographies of Wyndham Lewis, the artist Benjamin Robert Hayden, and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1468311301
• ISBN 13: 9781468311303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400