How Napoleon Could Have Won the Day at Waterloo ; the Battle by Alessandro Barbero. Translated From the Italian by John Cullen. Atlantic Books, Pounds 9.99. Reviewed by Andrew Martin

Birmingham Post › July 01, 2006

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There are a handful of significant battles that have altered the course of global history: Agin-court, The Somme, Gettysburg and Pearl Harbor.

But the Battle of Waterloo was certainly one of the most momentous in history and reversed the course of European history.

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How Napoleon Could Have Won the Day at Waterloo ; the Battle by Alessandro Barbero. Translated From the Italian by John Cullen. Atlantic Books, Pounds 9.99. Reviewed by Andrew Martin

For it was the events on a muddy field in 1815 that led to the Duke of Wellington putting an end to N...

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