"On 20 March 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte stepped onto Parisian soil once again following his escape from exile on the island of Elba. The calculated move came from a desire to regain the hearts and minds of his fellow Frenchmen and the power that such admiration wielded. In one last great gamble, Napoleon and his armies set their sights on depleting the Seventh Coalition’s forces and achieving a decisive victory in the Belgian village of Waterloo. Over the following pages, meet the Duke of Wellington, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and the military heroes who fought for the ultimate prize, step into the battles for Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte and find out how the Battle of Waterloo cost Napoleon everything. "