- Published: 15 May 2015
- ISBN: 9780099563792
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $27.99
Waterloo
The Aftermath
- Published: 15 May 2015
- ISBN: 9780099563792
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $27.99
I was gripped by the wealth of detail and humanity in the book... This is how the tales of battles should be told, whatever the time, place or outcome
Emily Mayhew, author of Wounded
A grim story – but well worth the telling
Saul David, Evening Standard
It is all here – and all told with the same verve, eye for anecdote and command of the material. This is a very good book, and a model of how narrative history should be written... anybody remotely interested in the battle should read
The Spectator
Invigorating and compelling
Daily Telegraph
Hugely readable, held together by imaginative structuring... Storytelling in the great narrative tradition
John Pemble, Guardian
What is truly gripping is the human horror, and the realization that what counts in war is not glory or patriotism, but victory, supremacy and the uncompromising need to prevail
Roger Lewis, Daily Mail
O’Keeffe has done a magnificent job tying up loose ends and telling a story that needed to be told
Good Book Guide
O’Keeffe brings an unjaundiced eye to what has been a well-told tale
Connexion
Original and fascinating… If you buy one book to mark [the] anniversary [of Waterloo], buy this one
Washington Post
O’Keeffe describes these fraught, uncertain days with skill and a touch for ground-level detail... [He] has told in vivid colors a story that is often passed over in most narratives, but that is alive with drama and human tragedy
New York Times
If you buy one book to mark this Waterloo anniversary, buy this one
Gerard DeGroot, The Times