Married only weeks before Waterloo, Magdalene De Lancey followed her husband, Wellington’s Quartermaster-General, to Belgium. When he was struck down in the battle she found him alive in a roadside cottage and nursed him there for a week, amid the endless rumble of wagons, wounded and prisoners, recording every hope and fear.
A short, intensely personal record of a great battle’s aftermath, printed with tributes from Dickens and Scott. Download the free EPUB.