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Narrative history at its best – and bloodiest

A review of Waterloo: The Aftermath, by Paul O’Keeffe. This highly recommended history is a salutary reminder that most of the actual fighting was left to our allies

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

Waterloo: The Aftermath Paul O’Keeffe

Bodley Head, pp.392, £25, ISBN: 9781847921826

Anyone thinking of bringing out a book on Waterloo at the moment must be very confident, very brave or just plain daft. Over the last month there have been at least five new books on the battle, and so unless a writer is in a position to bring the equivalent of whole divisions of loyal Sharpe readers with him, he’d better have some new line to take.

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