Allan Mallinson

Good companion in the field

issue 21 January 2006

  • The Battle

    Alessandro Barbero

    Atlantic Books, pp. 350

  • A Surgical Artist at War

    edited by M. K. H. Crumplin and P. Starling

    Royal College of Surgeons, pp. 100

After a year and more of Trafalgar it is perhaps time to turn once again to Waterloo. By comparison with the feast, or glut, of Nelsoniana, there is something of a paucity of safe accounts of 18 June 1815. Besides Andrew Roberts’s ultra-compact Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble, an impressive overview of both the battle and campaign, there has not been a straightforward narrative in many years.

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