The tragic story of one of the British Army's first professional staff officers and his young bride, Magdelene. Married just a week and blissfully happy, he had to join Wellington as his chief of staff, and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. Magdelene nursed him through his last ten days and then wrote a careful memoir as a tribute to his memory. Miller puts the love story most capably in its historical context and reprints the memoir verbatim.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 59 Winter 2011 ) |
