The battle that ended an era-by an eye witness This is a superb account of one of the pivotal battles of the Napoleonic Wars- Leipzig-the so called 'Battle of the Nations'. It was here in 1813, after Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign that the great allied powers of Europe brought him to account and where he suffered the defeat which would herald his ruin, bring an end to the First Empire and the demise of an epoch. What makes this book utterly compelling is that it is told as part history, part firsthand experience, by someone who was at the very heart of the turmoil- within the city itself. Observations