Buy this book on-line ADKIN**, MARK: : THE WATERLOO COMPANION: The complete guide to history's most famous land battleLONDON.AURUM PRESS LIMITED,2001. ISBN 9781854107640.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9th imp.[Complete number line 10 9.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial painting illustrated front panel (The Battle of Waterloo: Cuirassieurs charging the Highlanders [detail] by Felix Phillipoteaux) with red+b/w lettering to front+spine,rear panel with colour battle map and scenic,modern photograph of same; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a dark blue and white striped headband and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9th imp,6-432pp[paginated] includes acknowledgements,an introduction with abbreviations+symbols chart to reverse of last page of same,a prologue,10 sections and epilogue with 3 sections: Wellington,Blucher and Napoleon,profuse b/w+colour illustrations, photographs and battle diagrams throughout the text and the book,a bibliography,a Timechart and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and first page of contents list/table.
Please be advised that this is a very heavy tome - 2.2Kg unpackaged and as such would normally incur heavy P/p+insurance costs, particularly for overseas buyers' destinations - hence offered postage-free but insured,selling price,worldwide.
There have been many,many books about Waterloo,but never one to rival this in scale or authority.The text,based on extensive research, including many days spent on the battlefield itself,does far more than simply narrate the events of 18 June 1815.There is as much comment as there is description.Plans are analyzed, commanders assessed and manoeuvres painstakingly related to the ground.
Armies,weapons and tactics are carefully examined and evaluated,and a considerable effort is made to answer the age-old battle questions of who?,when?,where?, how?,and why? Neglected aspects of the fighting,such as the performance of the French 'Grand Battery' or the Prussian attacks on Plancenoit,are given prominence.A third of the text cosists of 'boxes',each providing,often in anecdotal form,little known information or the first-hand accounts of those who fought upon this most celebrated of battlefields.
The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information,analysis and comment on the battle ever published.
Over forty specially designed maps in full colour,a complete graphic presentation of the battle and the battlefield on a scale never before attempted; a unique sequence of panoramic photographs of the present-day battlefield overlaid with deployments at key stages; order of battle diagrams for all three armies showing unit strengths and commanders' names down to battalion and battery level; detailed descriptions and illustrations of weapons, equipment and drill procedures; background information on character and careers of all the main commanders; blow-by-blow accounts of the critical stages of the battle,with maps, diagrams and photographs,and finally 16 pages of specially commissioned paintings of uniforms.
Mark Adkins,a former Army officer who has published a number of distinguished works on military history,including 'The Trafalgar Companion.' and 'The Gettysburg Companion.' (both also published by Aurum), and 'The Sharpe Companion.' - see my following book IDs' rja24347 for UK,8vo p/b 1st edn thus,example of this title or rja721917 and rja732117 for UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edns examples.
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