It is close to a year since my first ever visit to the Waterloo battlefield. The trip brought an end to perhaps the greatest omission from my decades of interest in military history, and to stand at the gates of Hougoumont was, in particular, quite an emotional event.
Fascination with the subject began when I was a kid painting Airfix soldiers a very long time ago. I got drawn into the world of Napoleonic wargaming, but to be honest I found it all a bit too fiddly and slow and moved on to faster stuff with tanks.
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