Waterloo

This history treats the 1815 battle near Brussels as both a military event and a European memory. Forrest outlines the campaign after Napoleon's return from Elba, when Wellington's Anglo-Allied army and Blucher's Prussians met the French on 18 June, then gives a compact account of the fighting itself. The longer argument is how that day was later claimed or neglected: as a British national myth, a French heroic defeat, a Prussian footnote beside Leipzig, or an episode in Orange and Belgian politics. Painters, politicians, and veterans all reshape the story. The book is a study of battle and commemoration, not a minute tactical reconstruction.

Quarter-bound in red blocked cloth, with textured paper sides printed with colour artwork by Geoff Grandfield. Gilt spine and cover titling. Plain slipcase.