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Two great books by two of my favorite authors. Cornwell also treated Waterloo very well in his Sharpe series, “Sharpe’s Waterloo”.


3 posted on 06/18/2018 6:42:15 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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A non-fiction account, but one that reads as well as a novel, is Capt. Cavalie Mercer's Journal of the Waterloo Campaign. It's his actual journal, done in a fairly terse style.

Another great eyewitness account, albeit from the Peninsular Campaign, is Recollections of Rifleman Harris. Harris was a common foot soldier and so presents a very different account of life in the British Army during the Napoleonic wars than that of Mercer.
8 posted on 06/18/2018 11:51:12 AM PDT by daltec
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