Post by elisabeth on Dec 2, 2005 7:23:12 GMT -6
... a fascinating parallel of a military cover-up, so I hope it's OK to post it here!
If we think the Reno COI is bad, try this for size.
It's 'Wellington's Smallest Victory', by Peter Hofschroer, published by Faber and Faber. About Lt. Cliborne who, in all innocence, set out in the 1820s to make a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo. He committed the cardinal sin of doing real research instead of basing it on the facts as stated in Wellington's Waterloo Dispatch -- thus inadvertently revealing that the Great Man had lied through his teeth about the part played by the Prussians. From then on, he was toast; Wellington saw to that. It's an absolutely spellbinding story, told with scholarship and wit, and I recommend it highly ...
If we think the Reno COI is bad, try this for size.
It's 'Wellington's Smallest Victory', by Peter Hofschroer, published by Faber and Faber. About Lt. Cliborne who, in all innocence, set out in the 1820s to make a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo. He committed the cardinal sin of doing real research instead of basing it on the facts as stated in Wellington's Waterloo Dispatch -- thus inadvertently revealing that the Great Man had lied through his teeth about the part played by the Prussians. From then on, he was toast; Wellington saw to that. It's an absolutely spellbinding story, told with scholarship and wit, and I recommend it highly ...