Wellington's Smallest Victory. The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo.

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 308. Cream white wraps, printed in black. Contents, List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Notes.

The story of William Siborne, a lieutenant in the British army and expert in topography, who in 1830 was commissioned to make a vast scale model of Waterloo, incorporating 75,000 tin-lead soldiers and stretching over 400 square feet – now displayed at the National Army Museum in London and regarded as the greatest military model ever made.

Currently serving an indeterminate sentence at a secure, psychiatric unit in Graz, Austria, having been extradited there after being convicted at Teesside Crown Court over online child sex abuse offences, Hofschröer's supporters are waging a campaign to prove that he was 'framed' by the police 'in view of his exposure of official corruption in both countries'. "A first-class work of historical investigation." –Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and Wellington