Nick Lipscombe - Waterloo: The Decisive Victory

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Peter Snow CBE is a highly respected journalist, author and broadcaster. Educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford, he joined ITN as a reporter in 1962, where he was the Diplomatic and Defence Correspondent. In 1980 he became the first presenter of Newsnight and went on to cover elections and live political events for the BBC. In 2002, in order to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Alamein, Peter and his son Dan, also a historian, made a programme for BBC 2, which led to them presenting two further series Battlefield Britain and The Worlds 20th Century Battlefields; both of which are accompanied by books of the same title. Peter is the author of a number of books, including To War With Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo (2010) and When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington (2013).

Jeremy Black MBE is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Graduating from Cambridge with a starred first, he did post-graduate work at Oxford, and then taught at Durham, eventually as professor, before moving to Exeter in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the USA, where he has held visiting chairs at West Point, Texas Christian University and Stillman College. A past Council member of the Royal Historical Society, Black is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was appointed to the Order of Membership of the British Empire for services to stamp design. He is or has been on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Military History, and he is the author of over 100 books, with particular focus on 18th century British politics and international relations. Publications include The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World (2014) and War in the Nineteenth Century: 18001914 (2009).

Julian Spilsbury is an ex-regular soldier, and is the author of several books including major works on both the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. A TV scriptwriter, he writes many of the military obituaries that appear in the Daily Telegraph. Julian has written scripts for popular television programmes, and is a very popular tour guide as well as being extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, as anyone who has been on any of the tours following Napoleons campaigns will tell you.

Philip Haythornthwaite is an internationally respected author and historical consultant specialising in the military history, uniforms and equipment of the 18th and 19th centuries. His main area of research covers the Napoleonic Wars. He has written some 40 books, including more than 20 titles for Osprey Publishing, and numerous articles and papers on military history but still finds time to indulge in his other great passion, cricket.

Mark Adkin was educated at Bedford School and served in the British Army for 14 years, which included active service in Malaya and Aden. On leaving the army he joined the Overseas Civil Service and was posted to the British Solomon Islands, and spent many years based in Tarawa. His final posting was as a contract officer with the Barbados Defence Force, and it was as Caribbean operations staff officer that he participated in the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. It was this experience that led him to write his first book, Urgent Fury, which described the Grenada operation as he saw it. Since returning to the UK he has lived in Bedford, devoting much of his time to writing military history books. He has had 14 books published, including the popular Waterloo, Trafalgar, Gettysburg and Western Front Companions. Major Adkin is married and a fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.

Natalia Griffon de Pleineville was born in 1977 in Petrozavodsk, Russia. She is Editor-in-Chief of the history magazines Prtorien, Tradition and Gloire & Empire, as well as a lecturer and translator. She is the author of numerous articles and books on military history of the First Empire. A specialist on the Peninsular War, in 2009 she published a detailed study of Napoleons campaign against Sir John Moores British Army in 180809 entitled La Corogne, les Aigles en Galice, and in 2012 another Peninsular War book, Chiclana-Barrosa 5 March 1811: the Eagles in Andalusia. She lives near Paris, France.

Nick Lipscombe has always had a passionate interest in the Napoleonic Wars. After a 34-year career in the British Army, during which time he saw considerable operational service and was awarded the US Bronze Star, he now concentrates on writing and running tours to the Napoleonic battlefields. His first book, The Peninsular War Atlas (2010), was selected as the Daily Telegraph (History) Book of the Year. He is Chairman of Peninsular War 200, the UK official organisation for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the war, a member of the Waterloo 200 Committee and a Trustee of the British Cemetery at Elvas, Portugal. He speaks German and Spanish and lives in Spain with his wife: they have three daughters.

Ian Fletcher is one of the leading authorities on the Peninsular War and Wellingtons Army. Born in London in 1957, his first book, In Hell Before Daylight, was published in 1984, and since then he has written or edited almost 30 others. Ian first visited the battlefield of Waterloo in 1978 and travelled to the Iberian Peninsula for the first time in 1983. He now runs his own battlefield tour company (www.ifbt.co.uk), but still manages to continue writing, as well as work on other projects. He worked on the BBCs Decisive Weapons series, The History Channels Line of Fire and Sharpes War series and Channel 4s series on Revolutionary Armies. He is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.

Charles Esdaile currently holds a Personal Chair in the Department of History in the University of Liverpool and is the Academic Vice-President of Peninsular War 200. Best known for his numerous works on the Peninsular War of 180814, he has also written extensively on the Napoleonic period in general, contributing numerous articles on the subject. His publications include Outpost of Empire: The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucia, 18101812 (2012) and The Peninsular War: A New History (2003).

Andrew Field MBE has recently retired after an army career that stretched over 36 years. He has been a student of the Napoleonic Wars for even longer, with a particular interest in Napoleons Grande Arme, his campaign in Northern France in 1814 and Waterloo. His publications include Waterloo: The French Perspective (2012) and Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras the French Perspective (2014) exploring the Waterloo campaign from a French viewpoint, drawing on many accounts of French participants previously unpublished in English.

Huw Davies has been a lecturer in Defence Studies since March 2005. He gained his PhD from the University of Exeter in 2006, and, in addition to numerous articles on Napoleonic military history, his first book, Wellingtons Wars: The Making of a Military Genius, was published by Yale University Press in 2012. He is also contracted to write a history of the First Anglo-Afghan War for Harvard University Press, and is currently researching the rise of British military power between 1754 and 1815.

FOREWORD

HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON K.G., L.V.O., O.B.E., M.C., D.L.