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The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

10 best books like The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo (Brendan Simms): Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee, Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, Waterloo: The Aftermath, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Wellington: The Years of the Sword, The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 - 1815, Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
AuthorTed Nace
ISBN1576753190
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state.

After selling his successful computer book publishing...
Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee
AuthorJohn R. Elting
ISBN0306807572
This authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon's most powerful weapon—the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics,...
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
AuthorRory Muir
ISBN0300186657
The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters,...
The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry
AuthorJahan Ramazani
ISBN0393977919
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
Waterloo: The Aftermath
AuthorPaul O'Keeffe
ISBN1468311301
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared,...
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
AuthorMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks
ISBN0521778220
This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the...
Wellington: The Years of the Sword
AuthorElizabeth Longford
ISBN0831756462
For most of us Wellington equals Waterloo. But Waterloo was one peak only in the career of this phenomenal man, and it is the achievement of this major biography that it reveals the subtlety and full variety of Wellington's genius as well as the fascinating complexity of England in his time.

He...
The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 - 1815
AuthorRobert Harvey
ISBN0786718579
At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the cataclysm of Revolution which ripped the absolute...
Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny
AuthorTim Clayton
An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research.

The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic...
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
AuthorDominic Lieven
ISBN0713996374
Tho much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia & the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Lieven upends much of the conventional...
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
AuthorJakob Walter
ISBN0140165592
Eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter served in the Grand Army of Napoleon between 1806 and 1813. His diary intimately records his trials: the long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland, the disastrous Russian campaign, and the demoralizing defeat in a war few supported or understood....
Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle For Modern Europe
AuthorAndrew Roberts
ISBN0060762152
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington...
Wellington: The Iron Duke
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0007137508
Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington’s remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes’...
The Battle: A New History of Waterloo
AuthorAlessandro Barbero
ISBN0802714536
A vivid human and military history of the legendary battle

At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic and bloody struggle. In the end, as John Keegan notes, contemporaries felt that Napoleon's defeat had "reversed the tide...
Blenheim
AuthorCharles Spencer
ISBN0297846094
By the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough...
World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
AuthorEdward Paice
ISBN1933648902
The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa to secure the belly of a continent.
On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by German...
Stolen Sisters: An Inquiry into Feminicide in Canada
AuthorEmmanuelle Walter
ISBN1443445185
In 2014, the nation was rocked by the brutal violence against young Aboriginal women Loretta Saunders, Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper. But tragically, they were not the only Aboriginal women to suffer that year. In fact, an official report revealed that since 1980, 1,200 Canadian Aboriginal women...
Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
AuthorJanet Gleeson
John Law, notorious for killing a man in a duel and acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, found a more congenial atmosphere for pursuing his financial visions in the bankrupt court of France's Louis XV. His idea of establishing a bank to issue paper money with credit revived the French economy and earned...
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
AuthorMalcolm Gaskill
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible...
Passchendaele: A New History
AuthorNick Lloyd
ISBN0465094775
The Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Ypres offensive represents the modern impression of the...
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
AuthorStephen Alford
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

From historian Stephen Alford, author of The Watchers, the dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.

For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But...
Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment
AuthorCharlie Schroeder
ISBN1594630917

Confederates in the Attic meets The Year of Living Biblically in a funny and original memoir

In Arkansas, there is a full-scale Roman fort with catapults and ramparts. In Colorado, nearly a hundred men don Nazi uniforms to fight the battle of Stalingrad. On the St. Lawrence River, a group...
Back Over There: One American Time-Traveler, 100 years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends, and Ghosts to Count
AuthorRichard Rubin
ISBN1250084326
In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he...
Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
AuthorBernard Cornwell
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’

Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell is celebrated for his ability to bring history to life. Here, in his first work of non-fiction, he has written the true story of the epic battle of Waterloo – a momentous turning...
The Age of Napoleon
AuthorJ. Christopher Herold
ISBN0618154612
THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon’s rise from common...
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