Throughout- there are great battle diagrams, maps, b/w pictures and really lovely colour plates - taken from their other regimental and army books on the units present. It's all here- the secape from Elba- the 100 Days - the Advance to try and defeat one army or the other really quickly- the Allied stand and Quatre Bras- the Prussians at Wavre and Ligny - and then the "Close Run Thing" on the ridge at Waterloo. But for the novice who wants to comprehend the campaign in an easy format- to the Napoleonic die hard military Enthusiast- who wants a great little guide to visiting the battlefields in Belgium - to the Warhammer player- dragged into playing a Napoleonic game down at the club- this single book can address those needs. This one might come as close as any- with one glaring issue. It covers, rather ably, the Waterloo Campaign, and may be one of those "Holy Grail" Books I Love- the "Only Book You Need to Wargame/Model a Campaign". One of the earliest of the "Campaign" Series from Osprey Publishing, #15, in fact, was this classic, first published in 1992.
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