![]() ![]() It was difficult to follow the movements and geography of the battle without a map and I soon gave up, treating it as background to the story. ![]() Some of the battlefield descriptions sounded as though influenced by the First World War which must have been within living memory given the time it was written. The narrator has a good range and depth of voices and accents making it easy to distinguish between the various characters in the story (apart from a few mispronunciations in the French) and carries her audience with her. We would use all sorts of labels and modern vocabulary to describe her these days. ![]() For once Georgette Heyer gives us a flawed and complex heroine. ![]() The superb narration captured the atmosphere the contrast between the shallow frivolous lives of the aristocracy in Brussels and the horror of the battlefield was brought to life by the slow build up to the action and the detailed descriptions. I appreciated it much more this time round, especially as an audiobook. I read this book as a teenager and skipped through the “boring” bits. Paints a convincing picture of the Battle of Waterloo ![]()
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