Just finished your new “Waterloo.” What an excellent book! My great-grandfather Sandford fought at Gettysburg, and I’ve studied that battle extensively, and I think I understand it as well as it can be understood. I’ve also read a lot about Waterloo, but never understood it. Your book went a long way toward bring a kind of understanding. (Gettysburg always seemed to me to be quite a rational battle, while Waterloo seemed more like a frantic collision beyond any real control.) I’m also very familiar with your previous Waterloo, the Sharpe novel, which I’ve read several times. Was Sharpe in any way modeled after Lt. Col. Sir John Colborne? I thought I felt a resemblance…

John (Sandford) Camp