A vibrant and exhilarating hour-by-hour portrayal of this iconic battle, drawing on the eye witness accounts of those who fought it.
Robert Kershaw is a former Para, having joined the Parachute
Regiment in 1973, commanded 10 Para and left as a full Colonel in
2006. His active service includes tours in Northern Ireland, the
first Gulf War (during which he was awarded the US Bronze Star) and
Bosnia.
He is now a professional writer and has written ten highly praised
books of military history. He has been interviewed on numerous TV
documentaries and has published articles in the Times, Sunday
Times, Telegraph, Mail and Express. He recently edited Paradata, an
online encyclopaedia covering the living history of British
Airborne Forces, which won the Outstanding Achievement Award in the
Military category of the 2008 Interactive Media Awards. Kershaw has
led site-specific battlefield touring groups across the world,
including at Waterloo. He has also given lectures at the National
Army, Airborne and Tank Museums and aboard the Queen Elizabeth
cruise liner.
Full details are available on the author's website at
www.robertjkershaw.com.
A blow-by-blow account of the fateful day. I couldn't put it
down.
*Independent*
‘Gripping … The hour-by-hour account is packed with fascinating and
often poignant vignettes'
*Daily Express, 5 stars*
Kershaw writes well and makes sense of the battle ... a clear and
straightforward military view.
*Literary Review*
Shows us the battle at its grittiest and bloodiest, but through it
all manages to maintain a grip on the bigger picture.
*Scotsman*
So where does this leave Robert Kershaw’s 24 Hours at Waterloo?
Very simply, in a class of its own ... brings the events to life
with judiciously chosen first-hand accounts ... there could be no
better companion to the battlefield than Kershaw’s.
*Spectator*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |