The extraordinary and tragic tale of one man's obsession to build the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time.
Peter Hofschroer tells the remarkable story of William Siborne, a lieutenant in the British Army and expert in topography, who was commissioned to make a vast scale model of Waterloo, incorporating seventy-five thousand tin-lead soldiers and stretching over four-hundred square feet.
But why - at a time when celebrations of England's finest hour at Waterloo were so in vogue, and Wellington's fame was as its peak - did this exquisite model gain Siborne the enmity of the Duke and ultimately lead to his own ruin?
