A Desperate Business: Wellington, The British Army and the Waterloo Campaign - Softcover

Fletcher, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862274150 ISBN 13: 9781862274150

Publisher: Spellmount, 1995

Synopsis

Presents the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on to the ridge at Mont St Jean until their Prussian allies arrived to put the seal on one of the most decisive victories in military history.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian Fletcher was born in London in 1957. His first book, In Hell Before Daylight, was published in 1984 since when he has written nine others including The Waters of Oblivion, Craufurd's Light Division, Gentlemen's Sons, Fields of Fire, Wellington's Foot Guards, Wellington's Regiments and Galloping at Everything. He has also edited Letters from the Front, a collection of First World War letters, A Guards Officer in the Peninsula War, For King and Country and The Peninsular War: Aspects of the Struggle for the Iberian Peninsula. He runs Ian Fletcher Battlefield Tours (www.ifbt.co.uk), a company specializing in pre-20th-century battlefield visits and regularly escorts clients to the Iberian Peninsula. He is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History

Synopsis:

A 'desperate business' was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on 18 June 1815. Here, Ian Fletcher tells the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on to the ridge at Mont St Jean until their Prussian allies arrived to put the seal on one of the most decisive victories in military history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spellmount
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1862274150
• ISBN 13: 9781862274150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128