PDF Daughters Of Infamy: The Stories of the Ships That Survived Pearl Harbor by David Kilmer in History

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Published for the 200th anniversary of the battle; the groundbreaking new account of the last days of the Napoleonic Wars In the early morning hours of June 19; 1815; more than 50;000 men and 7;000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours; days; weeks and months that followed; news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared; its dead buried or burned; its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in; Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender; exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo; Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights; sounds; and smells of the battlefield; of conquest and defeat; of celebration and riot.