"Vienna, 1815: as the political giants of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years, the news arrives that Napoleon has returned to France. Bonaparte - the revolutionary turned emperor and 'disturber of the world's peace' - had been defeated and exiled, but now he is fast advancing on Paris, gathering troops and taking cities without firing a single shot. Europe's pease is not to last.

As Stephen Coote brilliantly re-creates the action sweeping across France, cuminating in the epic Battle of Waterloo, he looks back on the rapid expansion of Napoleon's empire, where time and again he floored the Allied armies with his sudden attacks. And we meet, too, Napoleon's fellow players: Josephine, his great love; Talleyrand, his duplicitous erstwhile foreign secretary; Fouché, the sinister head of hte secret police; Blucher, the uncouth yet courageous Prussion commander; and Wellington, the Iron Duke."

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Found close to Covent Garden looking very lonely sitting on a pillar beside a theatre. Passed onto my father who has an interest in European history and it was enjoyed then allowed to view the sights of South East London through the study window.. Now being passed onto a friend in Central London.

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