书名：Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles滑铁卢：四天、三支大军和三场战役的历史

作者：Bernard Cornwell
出版社名称：William Collins
出版时间：2015
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780007539406
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：352

1815年6月18日，法国、英国和普鲁士军队集结在布鲁塞尔南部的一个安静的峡谷。前三天，法军在利尼击败普鲁士军队，并与英军形成对峙，随即联军撤退。在这里靠北的小村，联军击败法军，这就是著名的滑铁卢战役——在欧洲历史上具有里程碑意义的血战。

英国作家伯纳德·康沃尔将精彩的文笔和细致的研究结合在一起，成就了这本非虚构类畅销书Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles《滑铁卢：四天、三支大军和三场战役的历史》。

媒体评论：
“无与伦比的故事，登峰造极的讲述……不可能更美妙了。”——马克斯·黑斯廷斯，《星期日泰晤士报》

“在《滑铁卢》的末尾，读者会感到，仿佛他们自己也能指挥一个营。历史书写得这么精彩，谁还需要读小说去寻求刺激？”——《华尔街日报》

“滑铁卢战役或许是一个已经被挖掘很多的话题，但这部新书一定会让军事历史迷心满意足……康沃尔给这部详尽而可读性极强的叙述注入了人性的因素。”——《出版商周刊》

“任何人，甚至伟大的军事历史学家约翰·基根爵士，都不能比康沃尔更精彩地描述或解释一场战役……康沃尔的记述非常清晰，而且节奏感极强，让这一系列混乱而令人迷惑的战役也变得清晰可辨，容易理解和欣赏。”——《图书馆期刊》

“一个伟大而恐怖的故事，讲得精彩纷呈而清晰晓畅，作者对战斗中的人，以及他们为什么那样做，有着深刻理解。”——《经济学人》

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller
On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat.
The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield.
Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour-by-hour account of that fateful day.
In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers.
Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy – and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.

Praise for Waterloo:
‘[…] An account that is both vivid and scholarly. Readers new to the Waterloo campaign could hope for no better introduction, and veterans will find fresh insights.’--Independent

‘Cornwell is excellent on the minutiae of tactics […] he offers narrative clarity, and a sure grip on personalities and period.’--Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

‘An excellent first foray into non-fiction, and proof that good narrative history is no different from fiction – it’s all about the story.’--Evening Standard

‘A gripping “fife and drum” account […] beautifully produced.’--Country Life

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles《滑铁卢：四天、三支大军和三场战役的历史》是一个激动人心且扣人心弦的故事，讲述了英雄业绩和莫大悲剧，以及裁定欧洲命运的zui后战役。

伯纳德·康沃尔融合了绘声绘色讲故事的高超技艺和一丝不苟的历史研究，叙述了每一个引人入胜的瞬间，从拿破仑逃离厄尔巴岛，到三场战役的硝烟与鲜血，及至战役的后续。通过引用拿破仑皇帝、威灵顿公爵和普通官兵的书信与日记，康沃尔栩栩如生地呈现了参加这些著名战役是怎样的一种体验。他对这些战役的详尽理解和生动描绘，也清晰地展现了这四天的跌宕起伏。在这部历史中，有很多至关重要的决策，双方都有展现出惊人勇气的时刻，战局难测，直到惨痛的结局。

伯纳德·康沃尔（Bernard Cornwell），生于伦敦，目前居住在美国。他是一位畅销书作家，著有极其成功的“沙普”系列小说（以拿破仑战争为背景）、“斯塔巴克”编年史、“军阀”系列小说、“圣杯”系列小说和“武士”系列小说，以及独立的战争历史小说《阿金库尔》和《要塞》。

Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex, and now lives mainly in the USA with his wife. In addition to the hugely successful Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell is the author of the Starbuck Chronicles, the Warlord series, the Grail Quest and the Alfred series and standalone battle books Azincourt and The Fort.

‘MY ISLAND IS NONE too big!’ Napoleon declared when he found himself ruler of Elba, the tiny island that lies between Corsica and Italy. He had been Emperor of France and ruler of million people, yet now, in 1814, he governed just 86 square miles and11,000 subjects. Yet he was determined to be a good ruler, and no sooner had he arrived than he began issuing a string of decrees that would reform the island’s mining industry and its agriculture. Little escaped his attention; ‘Inform the intendant he wrote, ‘of my dissatisfaction at the dirty state of the streets:

His plans extended far beyond street-cleaning. He wanted to build a new hospital, new schools and new roads, but there was never enough money. The restored monarchy in France had agreed to pay Napoleon a subsidy of 2 million francs a year, but it soon became apparent that the money would never be paid, and without money there could be no new hospitals, schools or roads. Frustrated by this failure, the Emperor retired into a sulk, passing the days by playing cards with his attendants, and all the while aware of the British and French warships that guarded Elba’s coast to make certain he did not leave his Lilliputian kingdom.
The Emperor was bored. He missed his wife and son. He missed Josephine too and he was inconsolable when the news of her death reached Elba. Poor Josephine, with her black teeth, languid manner and lissom body, a woman who was adored by every man who met her, who was unfaithful to Napoleon, yet was always forgiven. He loved her even though, for dynastic reasons, he had divorced her. ‘I have not passed a day without loving you,’ he wrote to her after her death as though she still lived, ‘I have not spent a night without clasping you in my arms ... no woman was ever loved with such devotion!’
He was bored and he was angry. He was angry at Louis XVIII, who was not paying the agreed subsidy, and furious at Talleyrand, once his own Foreign Minister, who now negotiated for the French monarchy at the Congress of Vienna. Talleyrand, sly, clever and duplicitous, was warning the other European envoys that Napoleon could never be kept safe on a small Mediterranean island so close to France. He wanted the Emperor sent far away to some remote place like the Azores, or better still to a West Indian island where the yellow fever raged, or perhaps to some speck in a distant ocean like Saint Helena.

0123456789