Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny - Hardcover

Tim Clayton was educated at Cambridge University where he specialised in the graphic satire of James Gillray. He is the award winning and bestselling author of a number of books on naval and military history, including the winner of the 2008 Mountbatten Literary Award, Tars, and the critically acclaimed Trafalgar. Tim is also an Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is currently working at the British Museum as co-curator of the exhibition Bonaparte and the British, which will be shown in 2015 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Magnificent and magisterial Literary Review A quite brilliant piece of meticulous historical detective work ... I have no doubt that this book will become a classic Scotland on Sunday Clayton makes the fog of war central to the narrative; we are pitched into the chaos and din of Waterloo ... We experience it as Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary soldier would have done Daily Telegraph Stirring ... a fabulous story, superbly told -- Max Hastings Sunday Times Tim Clayton not only gives a masterful account of the battle that changed the face of Europe but also sets it in its proper context ... Clayton manages the difficult trick in military history of providing a blow-by-blow account without losing the flow of the narrative Express An incisive analysis of how the battle unravelled and why The Times Nuanced, broad, searching and elegant ... the overall integrity of his scholarship is undeniable. The book may well become the most authoritative account of the four-day campaign Spectator Tim Clayton's book is the best overview of the meeting of the three armies -- Simon Heffer New Statesman