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From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history.

In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other.

With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.

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  • Title The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
  • Author Brendan Simms
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 2015-02-10
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780465064823 / 0465064825
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: Benelux
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.274

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2015, Page 116
  • New York Times Book Review, 05/17/2015, Page 34
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/16/2015, Page 0

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Brendan Simms is a professor in the History of International Relations and fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He is the author of eight previous books, including The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo and Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
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