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The Longest Afternoon

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Longest Afternoon

By Brendan Simms

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About the book

'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources - the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants - to produce a coherent and gripping narrative' Nick Lezard, GuardianThe true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed a...Show more

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ISBN

9780141979267

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2015

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Longest Afternoon

Format

Paperback

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