Of all the big battalions of books marking the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo that have come my way, this has to be the best. David Crane has used the bloody campaign as a telescope, bringing into sharp focus not just the carnage along the Brussels road, but the state of Britain itself: a country on the cusp of vast, irreversible change.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £16 Tel: 08430 600033. Nigel Jones has written a history of the Tower of London and is the author of Peace and War: Britain in 1914.
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