Napoleon: Waterloo

HISTORICAL

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The cruelty of glory’s poisoned chalice has never been more poignant than in Napoleon’s fall. A vast empire to rival Rome comes crumbling down, like the marble to the chisel, even as the sculptor strives to capture its enduring legacy.

The Empire was chipped away, piece by painful piece, from the snow-swept steppes of Russia, to the blood-soaked Spanish sands of Pamplona’s bullring colosseum, and to final defeat by Wellington at Waterloo.

This novel tries to uphold, to the bitter end, humanity’s will to hold back the tide of the inevitable and cling to the flame of one man’s destiny, even as it threatens to burn out amidst the snow.

The flicker of Napoleon’s light, fragile as the snowflake before the all-vanquishing thaw, was never extinguished despite the howling wind, snapping like the wolves ever at his heels, seeking to tear his empire apart, piece by piece.

I hope you see Napoleon in this light, as I do.

Benno Schlicker lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He went to Concordia College Secondary School, and then on to study History at the University of Adelaide, where he completed an honours thesis on the Dutch Revolt, particularly, on the impact of the religious iconoclasm in the towns of the Low Countries and Walloon Flanders, 1555–1566. The knowledge of which has, to some degree, shaped the cultural and economic background of this series on Napoleon, set a few centuries later.