滑铁卢可能是军事史上最著名的战役。关于这一主题已经写了数千本书，但谜团依然存在，争议颇多。
通过展示参加战斗的盟军军官以前未发表的200多篇报道，本系列可以追溯到主要的原始资料。盟军军官在信中叙述了他们的位置和所见所闻。加雷思·格洛弗提供了历史背景信息，但让官员们在准确披露1815年6月发生的事情时为自己说话。
这些信件最初是寄给W·西伯恩船长的，并应其要求，后来在制作他著名的战斗模型的过程中，这些信件在大英图书馆的西伯恩文件中一直未被阅读。1891年，《滑铁卢快报》发表了一小部分选集，但许多具有重大历史意义的作品在当时并没有看到曙光，直到现在仍然无法获得。格洛弗现在展示了这个非凡的收藏，其中包括巴林少校、乔治·鲍尔斯、爱德华·维尼亚茨、约翰·古伍德和爱德华·科顿的信件，以及汉诺威人和国王德国军团军官的信件。
这是一个关于这场战斗的名副其实的资料宝库，这意味着每个历史学家对这场战斗的看法都需要纠正。
Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
Waterloo is probably the most famous battle in military history. Thousands of books have been written on the subject but mysteries remain and controversy abounds.
By presenting more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, this collection goes right back to the primary source material. In the letters the Allied officers recount where they were and what they saw. Gareth Glover has provided historical background information but lets the officers speak for themselves as they reveal exactly what happened in June 1815.
Originally sent to, and at the request of, Captain W Siborne, then in the process of building his famous model of the battle, these letters have remained unread in the Siborne papers in the British Library. A small selection was published in Waterloo Letters in 1891 but much of vast historical significance did not see the light then and has remained inaccessible until now. Glover now presents this remarkable collection which includes letters here by Major Baring, George Bowles, Edward Whinyates, John Gurwood and Edward Cotton as well as letters by Hanoverian and King’s German Legion officers.
This is a veritable treasure trove of material on the battle and one which will mean that every historian’s view of the battle will need correcting.
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