FOUR DAYS IN JUNE - A battle lost,a battle won,June 1815.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean, glossy colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with gilt and plain white lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing, book has a slight lean. Top+fore-edges though slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked fluorescent,red gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue+white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xpp+3-369,a prologue,Pts 1-4 includes 32 chapters and a postscript,bw battle maps/plans, biographical notes (on characters/historical figures),and an author's note.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table,single-page b/w battle map to Day 1+2 separator pages,double-page b/w battle map to Days 3+4 separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear. Author's debut novel.
Three armies on the fields of Waterloo.A battle for honour, glory, civilisation.And two great leaders,Napoleon and Wellington,fighting directly for the first time to take their nations to victory.
'Four Days in June' goes straight to the heart of this most famous of battles.Wars are won by the men who led them. This is the story of those men's courage,their thoughts and their fears.
Colonel De Lancey,Wellington's new Quartemaster-General,recently married and yearning for his beautiful wife.Colonel MacDonnell,a Scot who must hold his post to the last man. General Ziethen of the Prussian army, distrustful of the British but vital to their cause.
Marshal Ney,mistrusted by Napoleon but revered by the French soldiers.
And Napoleon,who must prove his worth as a great warrior for the glory of France.
As the battle develops over the four days,it is seen through the very different positions and characters of the front men. From the eve of the battle to its bloody conclusion,there is defiance,desperation and great courage on both sides.Iain Gale draws the scene,the devastation, the stench of war,with such vitality that,though the outcome is known,the tension of war comes vividly to life.
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