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Essential Histories Special 04, The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

by: Gregory Fremont-Barnes & Todd Fisher, foreword by Bernard Cornwell

Osprey Publishing Product Description:

& 8220;The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world’s greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire. This book contains material previously published as Essential Histories volumes 3, 9, 17 and 39.& 8221;

From the Foreword:

"At around halt past seven on the smoke-shrouded evening of 18 June 1815, Napoleon's Imperial Guard marched to their last attack. These were the Emperor's shock troops, battle-hardened veterans going to deliver the killing blow against an enemy desperately weakened by an afternoon's fighting. The sinking sun was hidden by cloud and further obscured by powder smoke that thickened as the artillery on the low hill began to drive round shot, shells and canister into the Guard's ranks. Hut cannon alone would never stop elite troops like the Guard who were marching in columns, each a thick mass of men driven by the sound of drums, and watched by their Emperor as their Eagle-topped banners advanced across sodden ground obstructed by hundreds of dead horses and men. Napoleon's finest troops, supported by the survivors of the afternoon's attacks, advanced across flattened rye that had been scorched black by cannon lire, and so up the gentle slope to where the enemy, they were assured, needed just one blow to collapse. The majority of the Imperial Guard had never met that enemy. It was British infantry, many of them veterans of the Peninsular War and trained to one deadly skill; the delivery of musket volleys. And on the ridge of Waterloo, under the foul-smelling gun smoke, the irresistible Imperial Guard met the immovable redcoats. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and a moment when history trembled in the balance. The Guard could not know it, but they were about to be defeated and with them ended the Eagles, the Empire and twenty-two years of warfare.

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That is the story you are about to read and it is a magnificent tale, shot through with horror and blood and heroism, and with an ending so dramatic and unlikely that no Hollywood screenwriter or historical novelist would dare to contrive it."

Bernard Cornwell, OBE

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