ebooks Civil War Generalship: The Art Of Command by W. J. Wood in History

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Vienna; 1815: As the political leaders of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after defeating Napoleon; the alarming news arrives that Napoleon has escaped captivity. Bonaparte had returned; and it would be just one hundred days before he met his enemies in a final; epic battle. In Napoleon and the Hundred Days; Stephen Coote vividly re-creates the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire; and brings to life the characters who shaped it. With the eye of an historian and the dramatic style of a novelist; Coote describes how the path to war became inevitable and how; at the Battle of Waterloo; the fatigued but ever arrogant Napoleon met his match. This is a dazzling portrait of the legendary emperor; whose genius; courage; and tenacity won--and lost--him a vast empire.