Waterloo Archive. Volume 3, Gareth Glover

"[In this] new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen British material contained in Vol. 1 includes: a series of letters written by a senior officer on Wellington''s Staff to Sir Thomas Graham immediately following the battle; the letters of a member of the Wedgewood family in the Guards at Waterloo; the journal of Sgt. Johnston of the Scots Greys, detailing all his experiences, including a very rare transcript of his own court martial; letters from eminent surgeons including those of Hume, Davy and Haddy James, who served at Waterloo with their harrowing tales of the wounds suffered. Vol. 2 concerns German troops which formed the majority of Wellington''s forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the King''s German Legion, and left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle. Early British histories of the battle have largel