Brendan Simms: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo [2015] paperback Condition:New a former nanny at the

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Brendan Simms: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo [2015] paperback Condition:New a former nanny at the'A superb little book that is micro history at its best' Washington Post 'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants to produce a coherent and gripping narrative' Nick Lezard, Guardian The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated