{ "item_title" : "The Day of Waterloo", "item_author" : [" Jd Arden "], "item_description" : "Nobody wrote down the hour at which Waterloo began. That is only the first thing the witnesses disagree about. The Day of Waterloo goes back to the people who were there: Wellington's own dispatch, the artillery officer CavaliMercer, Magdalene De Lancey, the Prussian official report, and the modern historians who have argued over all of them. It tells the day, and the three days around it, in plain English and says where the sources stop. What you will find inside: The Duchess of Richmond's ball, Quatre Bras and Ligny: how the campaign reached the ridgeThe night of rain, and why the battle began lateHougoumont and La Haye Sainte, the two farms the day turned onThe cavalry charges, the squares and Mercer's gunsGrouchy, the Prussians and the road from WavreThe Imperial Guard, Up Guards, and the words attributed to CambronneThe meeting of Wellington and Bl cher, and why the sources put it in two placesMagdalene De Lancey's six daysMajor Percy's journey to London with the dispatch, and the Rothschild legendThe field afterwards: the dead, the first tourists and the Lion's MoundThe book names its sources, says when it is relying on an encyclopedia summary, and keeps the evidence apart from the legend. It does not claim to settle the questions the witnesses left open. A closing chapter, What We Don't Know, lists the open questions, and Sources and Further Reading points you to the documents and studies to read next. Written for readers who want the real story told with pace and a plain voice. No history degree required. Scroll up and read the first chapter.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/826/433/9798264336812_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.99", "online_price" : "9.99", "our_price" : "9.99", "club_price" : "9.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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