Journal of the Waterloo Campaign

by Cavalie Mercer

Overview

Mercer’s journal is the most outstanding eyewitness account of the Waterloo campaign ever published. It is a classic of military history. This new, fully illustrated edition, featuring an extensive introduction and notes by Andrew Uffindell, one of the leading authorities on the Napoleonic Wars, contains a mass of additional material not included in the original. As the bicentenary of Waterloo approaches, this beautifully prepared, scholarly edition of Mercer’s work will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what it was really like to fight in the final, great battle against Napoleon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781599907
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	10/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Andrew Uffindell is a leading British military historian and one of the outstanding modern writers on the Napoleonic Wars. Among his many publications are Napoleon’s Immortals, The National Army Museum Book of Wellington's Armies, which was part of a series that collectively won the Royal United Services Institute’s Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature, Napoleon 1814, and Napoleon's Chicken Marengo: Creating the Myth of the Emperor's Favourite Dish.