title: Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815. Volume I: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras
author: John Hussey
description: <span style="">"John Husseys magnum opus on the Waterloo campaign is a magisterial work which is unlikely ever to be beaten for detail and objectivity. This book. which is only the first volume and takes us up to the eve of the battle. goes comprehensively and thoroughly into the minds of the commanders and staff through contemporary source documents. In this way readers are able to judge for themselves regarding many of the controversies. The book is beautifully written, well mapped, and it will be the authoritative book on Waterloo for all time."</span> (Major-General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, KCVO, Chairman Waterloo 200)<br /><br /><span style="">"This book is a gem. Every chapter is filled with new information I have not seen before. It is a must-read for hose who are interested in the tumultuous events of 1815."</span> (Robert Burnham, editor-in-chief, The Napoleonic Series)<br /><br /><span style="">"It will be decades before this book is superseded as the Best account of those extraordinary events of 1815."</span> (Professor Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon the Great)<br /><br /><span style="">"beautifully written and exhaustively researched; John Husseys book will hold the field for a very long time."</span> (Professor Sir Hew Strachan)<br /><br /><span style="">it is pretty much a slam dunk The author has used sources in four languages to tell this amazing story If you are looking for a one volume history of Napoleon's escape from Elba to the twin battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny, this is it. I cannot wait for the release of Volume II, and the author's telling of the battles of Waterloo and Wavre.</span> (<i>A Wargamers Needful Things</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">"The strategic and multinational focus of this first of two volumes on the Waterloo campaign makes it stand head and shoulders above the mass of books that only look at the battles; this will be one of the most important histories ever written in English on the events of 1815."</span> (Dr. Gregory W. Pedlow, author of On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington and the Campaign of 1815)<br /><br /><span style="">"This new study of the 1815 campaign presents a fresh and meticulously researched account of one of the most climactic battles in history. Its breadth of scope is comprehensive, importantly including the political perspective and how it impacted upon the military operations. Its sources are exhaustive and the mastery of its analysis compelling. It forms an essential guide to all aspects of the final campaign of two of the nineteenth centurys greatest commanders, Napoleon and Wellington."</span> (Philip Haythornthwaite, author of Waterloo Armies and TheNapoleonic Source Book)<br /><br /><span style="">"Volume I of Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815 is a brilliant tour de force, not least for its comprehensive coverage of matters that so many histories of warfare either ignore or skate over. Key facts, all of which impinge on command and control of an army or formation, need to be understood if one is really to comprehend what commanders had to cope with. I suspect they are simply not factored in by the vast majority of commentators and historians."</span> (Major-General Julian Thompson, CB, OBE)<br /><br /><span style="">"These two volumes represent a comprehensive study of the events of 1815 that surpasses all previous studies of the subject. Future historians will be hard pressed to improve upon such a work!  Every stage of the story of 1815 is handled in great detail with the author having used many sources, and every chapter presents new information and tells the story of events in such a way that this work is a veritable encyclopaedia of the subject If your family want to know what you want for Christmas, then make sure these two books are at the top of your wish list."</span> (<i>The Waterloo Journal</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">"This volume has set the new gold standard against which to measure books about Waterloo. I cannot recommend it too highly."</span> (<i>Clash of Steel</i>)
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. UNEXPECTED NEWS.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. A COUNTRY VISIT.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. RUN DOWN.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE PRIVATEER'S RENDEZVOUS.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE BRITISH CRUISERS.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. HOME AGAIN.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. A COMMISSION.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. STARTLING NEWS.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. MR. TALLBOYS' VISITOR.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. ON DETACHMENT.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. STILL-HUNTING.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE CAVE AMONG THE ROCKS.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. STARTLING NEWS.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE NEW HOUSEMAID.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. IN BELGIUM.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. FOUND AT LAST.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. QUATRE BRAS.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. WATERLOO.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. THE ROUT.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ONE OF THE 28TH
  
  
  A Tale of Waterloo
  
  
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  G. A. HENTY
  
  
  Author of _Bonnie Prince Charlie_ , _With Clive in India_ , _
  
  
  The Dragon and the Rave