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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815

From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I

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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815

By: John Hussey
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out.

It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleon's operational plan is likewise analysed and the way in which Soult misinterpreted it and accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June. This volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.

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Hussey has certainly done a huge amount of research in primary documents in order to make sense of the politics and interactions between the various Allied principals. We get hours of information about despatches sent hither and thither before any substantial battle - 25 hours in and still no Quatre Bras or Ligny - and whether those despatches were received and when. It all becomes very burdensome, though there is no doubt a minuscule audience for such minutiae.

Hoping the final 8 hours will see some battle.

Weight of detail makes for heavy going

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