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...ATLAS OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Brigadier General Vincent Esposito and Colonel John Robert Elting. Unpaged. Praeger. $19.95. At the heart of this volume are 169 maps, 9 in. by 12 in., originally prepared for use at West Point. The maps begin with "Europe in 1795," end at "Waterloo Campaign: Situation 29 June 1815," and cover every campaign and battle in between. They are entrancingly peppered with red and blue bars, arrows, boxes, dots, circles, cross-hatchings, and ominous notes like: "The Kamenski shown here is not the general of that name on Map 70." Facing each...
...that CBS is so young. If it had existed 149 years ago, it might have invited Wellington to do a show on Waterloo...
...have read Tolstoy's War and Peace: "To have one's ear pulled by the Emperor was considered the greatest honor and mark of favor at the French Court." Beagles aren't French and L.B.J. isn't Bonaparte, but if there is political significance, remember Waterloo...
...Terraube, who was the only woman nurse on the battlefield. (Now 39, Geneviève is a retiring Paris housewife and mother of two children, married to a former French paratrooper.) They were poignant get-togethers, for Dienbienphu holds as deep emotional implications for Frenchmen today as Verdun or Waterloo did for earlier generations...
...frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted by glory and travail, had welcomed him as Louis the Desired...