"Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, the Battle ... " Topic

…and Posterity 1815-2015.

This title has not yet been released,so we have to wait.

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It is out now and well worth a read. It is "different" and may not appeal to pure wargamers. I found it fascinating in dealing with the two centuries' changing perception of Waterloo. The author is brave to confidently write of 2015 using the past tense; he is very good after all at telling us just what went wrong for the first 100 year anniversary. Who knows whether Ukraine could send us all back into the trenches?

It does come across just how much the UK has had to appease French sensitivities, whether in choice of ambassador in the years immediately after, or in terminus railway station names to this day! The story told is reminiscent of the two books on Siborne's model. Wellington's generous comments re the Prussians in his immediate Despatch was less obvious in later years. Wellington the statesman did not grip me personally, as too familiar, but it soon got back onto the Waterloo posterity.

I did note a mention of Alan Lindsay, a great guide to the whole area. The author could do with a second visit, as he does get disorientated in at least two of the photos of the modern field, but we'll forgive that. It will be hard to come up with much different for the 200th, but this book did.