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Reviews of 1815
“This diplomatic history de luxe. It shows the vital basics of Europe before and after Waterloo. At the same time it builds upon the basics an extraordinarily vivid world of real diplomats, real dialogues, real diaries, with their real wives and women. We see the actual roads leading to and from (...)
The Roads to Waterloo
The book tells, essentially, the story of seventeen months, from April 1814 to August 1815 that saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe’s political frontiers, an international Congress in Vienna, a civil war in Italy and an international war in Belgium.
The book tells, essentially, the story of seventeen months, from April 1814 to August 1815 that saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe’s political frontiers, an international Congress in Vienna, a civil war in Italy and an international war in Belgium.
Preface
Some ten years ago, a friend of mine in Paris told me I should drive to Berlin. "In twenty-four hours you’ll be facing the Red Guard," he said, "and you will understand what Europe is all about." A week later, I was on the flat fast road to Berlin; over a stretch of seven hundred miles nature (...)
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