Waterloo

基本信息

Author: Tim Clayton (Author)

Language: English

Paperback: 704 pages

Publisher: Little Brown UK (5 Feb 2015)

ISBN: 9780349123011

Weight: 504g

Dimensions: 199 x 129 x 32 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

1815年6月15—18日，法军和反法联军在布鲁塞尔附近进行了3场决定欧洲命运的战斗。在滑铁卢战役200周年之际，蒂姆•克莱顿通过广泛引用新近发现的史料，以“小时”为计量单位，精细入微地重新评估了滑铁卢战役这一陈旧的传奇，力图揭示整场战役中大小事件的真实次序，以便正确考量困扰滑铁卢战役的种种争议，同时致力于阐述各方观点，从法国人、德意志人、荷兰人和比利时人，以及英国人的角度描绘了滑铁卢战役的全景图，由此尽可能提供一份由各国军队在其中扮演角色的公正记述。本书也生动地讲述了在马匹、步枪和大炮混杂的时代最后一次重要的战役中那些遭遇疯狂行军、极端恶劣天气、残酷的战斗，却仍然具备非凡勇气的人的故事，向普通读者展现参战者的生活和思想掠影，从而更加深刻地理解这场战役。

Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty.

An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon.

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这本书是纪念拿破仑在滑铁卢战役中最终战败200周年尤为出色的一本著作。——《标准晚报》

克莱顿以战争迷雾为叙述中心；我们犹如亲临混乱而喧嚣的滑铁卢……我们好像以威灵顿或拿破仑或一名普通士兵的身份，经历了这一切。——《每日电讯报》

深刻论述了滑铁卢战役如何发展，以及为何如此发展。——《泰晤士报》

精细入微又深入挖掘……作者的学识完整性无可争辩。这本书是关于这场历时四天的战斗较为权威可信的著作。——《旁观者》

作者简介

蒂姆·克莱顿毕业于剑桥大学，是英国华威大学的副研究员和古文物学会的成员。他写过多本军事史著作，比如《海狼：第二次世界大战中英国潜水艇精彩绝伦的故事》（Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of B ritain's WW2 Submarines）和《海员：使大不列颠统治海洋的人》（Tars: The Men Who Made Britannia Rule the Waves）。他是畅销书作者，曾获得 2008 年度英国海事基金会蒙巴顿奖等奖项。

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.