Description

A Waterloo scapegoat Courts-Martial of 34 innocent Guardsmen.

A sad story of an unsuccessful search-and-rescue attempt due to bad decision-making, followed by a ‘successful’ coverup by a Lieutenant Colonel.

A battlefield-detective step-by-step approach to a series of traumatic events from sunrise to sunset. A quote from the book…

“However, with every battalion member being primary sources concerning the Sunday morning Hougoumont fiasco, meant that every onlooker during the lashings knew both men were innocent. This meant that despite Macdonell’s objective being to focus everyone’s attention away from himself and the Hougoumont dead, the coverup had in actual fact, the opposite effect.”