This is a truly excellent and long overdue addition to the vast literature on Waterloo. And it's such a wonderful thing that a British soldier and historian has, like Edward Cotton so long before him, seen that it doesn't tarnish British martial glory - if anything instead enhancing it - to look at what has for so long (and so understandably) been trumpeted as a key British victory, from the perspective of the vanquished yet valiant foe. Superbe!

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A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer

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This book is a most welcome addition to any English bookshelf about the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, for on reading it one now realises how long the gap has remained unfilled. By using extensive extracts and grouping the material in a series of chronological chapters hour by hour through the day, Colonel Field has provided the reader with a gripping first-hand narrative of the fighting. There are some incidents where French accounts may seem strange to us, to need fleshing out, or are inadequate, or silent; but here Andrew Field has turned to allied sources, using them as a sort of mirror to shed light on the events, and this works remarkably well. Highly recommended.

British Army Review

It was about time a new book on the "Jonny Francois" view of Waterloo was published. I have a number of titles on the Napoleonic wars but this is very impressive. It is obviously the result of a labour of love, involving meticulous research and a great deal of effort by Andrew Field. Too many previous offerings on the subject fail to provide the French perspective and do not deal with the sorts of issues that only a military author can. This is magnificent and highly recommended, though primarily for the Waterloo enthusiast.

Soldier Magazine