Dictators on the Loose
Miles Taylor: Modelling Waterloo, 6 January 2005
Wellington’s Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo
by Peter Hofschröer.
Faber, 324 pp., £14.99, April 2004,0 571 21768 0 Show More
by Peter Hofschröer.
Faber, 324 pp., £14.99, April 2004,
“... along: the Battle of Waterloo was a cock-fight between little ‘Boney’ and old ‘Nosey’. As Peter Hofschröer’s elegant and meticulous book shows, Wellington did not escape being cut down to size himself. Wellington’s Smallest Victory describes the model of the battlefield of Waterloo constructed by Captain William Siborne, first exhibited in ... ”