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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

1 Glorious news! Nap’s landed again in France, Hurrah!

2 Napoleon has humbugged me, by God!

3 The fate of France is in your hands!

4 Avancez, mes enfants, courage, encore une fois, Français!

5 Ah! Now I’ve got them, those English!

6 A cannon ball came from the Lord knows where and took the head off our right-hand man

7 The Big Boots don’t like rough stuff!

8 Those terrible grey horses, how they fight!

9 We had our revenge! Such slaughtering!

10 The most beautiful troops in the world

11 Defend yourselves! Defend yourselves! They are coming in everywhere!

12 Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained

Aftermath: A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits

About the Publisher

‘The Field of Waterloo, from the Picton Tree’, by J. M. W. Turner, circa 1833. The painting severely exaggerates the steepness of the valley’s slopes, but does convey the small size of the battlefield.