The Longest Afternoon

The Battle of Waterloo is an iconic event that stands out as one of the most pivotal, bloodiest, and most celebrated military contests of the nineteenth century. With typical British confidence and precision, Michael Page narrates this detailed tribute to the Second Light Battalion, King's (the King of England) German Legion, which stood at the crossroads of Haye Sainte on June 18, 1815, defending a small farmhouse against wave after wave of Napoleon's best soldiers long enough to tip the tide of battle to the side of the allies. Page delivers the many German surnames and phrases sprinkled throughout the text with exacting precision, which only seems right because without those 400 brave German riflemen it's a distinct possibility that many English might have ended up speaking French (again). B.P. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine