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I''m not exactly sure when I became aware of it as a historical event - I do know that my first real understanding of it came from being loaned and then given Pericoli's "1815: The Armies at Waterloo
", which as well as being full of custom reference plates for the 1970 movie, contains a detailed and well-described account of the progress of the battle by Michael Glover. Which probably got me top marks on my last secondary school history exam before I (for various reasons I should cover in another blog post) gave it up.The other book that is Waterloo to me is Henry Siborne's "The Waterloo Letters", for its first-hand accounts written after the battle.
It has always been one of my favourite periods of history, and I think the gorgeous plates in Pericoli's book, and the letters written to Siborne, may have quite a lot to do with it :D
Nice post Mike. It was always David Chandler for me. Funny things that strike up these life times passions.
ReplyDeleteYes, I read Chandler in high school, and a great account it is too. More recently I read Bernard Cornwell's 'Waterloo,' which had plenty of snippets of information I never knew. Some of the chaps from my wargames club in England took part in the reenactment this past week. They're posting photos on Farcebook, so I can at least live the experience vicariously.
ReplyDeleteI have Pericoli's book although, because of the binding, a lot of pages are loose now!
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