Just a line to congratulate you and to thank you. I have read a good many books about Waterloo over the last 40 years (an ancestor was on Wellington’s staff), and yours is by far the best. You have managed to combine interesting insights )’A battle about roads’ sites the scene very well, as does ‘rock, paper, scissors’) with a very real picture of what it must have been like to be there on that terrible, glorious day — how frightening, and what a close-run thing it was. The mystery remains, though, about what had happened to Napoleon that he made so many bad appointments and allowed them to make so many mistakes.
Thank you for a wonderful book.
Regards,
Charles Marrin