Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles - Hardcover

"At the end of 'Waterloo, ' readers will feel that they could command a battalion themselves. With historical accounts like this, who needs novels for excitement?"--Wall Street Journal

"Waterloo may be a well-mined topic, but this new presentation is bound to satisfy lovers of military history....[Cornwell] injects a human element into a thorough and entertaining account."--Publishers Weekly

"No one, not even the great military historian John Keegan, describes or explains battle better than Cornwell....Cornwell illustrates so clearly and with such an assured sense of pacing that this messy and confusing set of battles is easier to follow, understand, and thus appreciate."--Library Journal, starred review

"Waterloo is a fabulous story, superbly told....Cornwell cannot be bettered."--Max Hastings, Sunday Times (London)

"Both vivid and scholarly....Readers new to the Waterloo campaign could hope for no better introduction and veterans will find fresh insights."--The Independent

"A great and terrible story told with energy and clarity by a writer who has a deep understanding of men in combat and why they do what they do."--The Economist

"The history of the Battle of Waterloo told by a master storyteller."--Shelf Awareness

"In his first nonfiction book, acclaimed historical novelist Cornwell (The Empty Throne, 2015, etc.) employs his storytelling skills to bring military history out of the textbook.... A fascinating, detailed, and generously illustrated description of the battle that changed the fate of 19th-century Europe."--Kirkus Reviews

"Bernard Cornwell proceeds at a brisk canter and his descriptions of the fighting are as gripping as any in his splendid Sharpe novels."--The Times (London)

"A lot of historians could learn from Cornwell's approach. He sets the scene, fleshes out the main characters and lets the story unfold to its dramatic conclusion. An excellent first foray into non-fiction."--Evening Standard (London)