The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. He has published widely on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic history in France and Europe, on the history of armies and war, and on the cultural history of modern France, most recently a biography of Napoleon (2011).

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Genesis of the Waterloo Campaign


• 3: The Battle


• 4: The Return of Peace: First Responses to Waterloo


• 5: Eye-witness Accounts


• 6: Wellington, Waterloo, and British Identity


• 7: Waterloo and the Napoleonic Legend


• 8: Waterloo in German, Dutch and Belgian Memory


• Further Reading


• Notes


• Index