![]() ![]() ![]() We are drawn into the world of a fictional French battalion with canteen mistress Marianne, her partner Fronsac and daughter Florisette (Poppy). This is a complete departure from my normal reads and proved an interesting journey. Includes a Battlefield Tour Guide for those wanting to follow the route taken by the story’s main characters or to visit the sites of the 1815 Waterloo Campaign. Field, author of Waterloo: The French Perspective and its companion volume, Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras)Ī novel of action and intrigue based on the real-life exploits of two women who fought, in their own right, within Napoleon’s army. His description of the fighting is particularly vivid and compelling.” (Andrew W. “Superb! David Ebsworth has really brought these dramatic events to life. 1815 – On the bloody fields of Waterloo, a battle-weary canteen mistress of Bonaparte’s Imperial Guard battalions must fight to free her daughter from all the perils that war will hurl against them – before this last campaign can kill them both. ![]()
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