My review of The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars by Evan Wilson has now been published in the latest issue of the journal War in History.
I highly recommend this book, which is available from the publisher here: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347336/the-horrible-peace/
‘Historians of eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland have increasingly interpreted warfare as a major agent of change. The domestic effects of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, above all, are now recognized as broad and deep, with profound implications for the reach of the state and the development of empire, commerce and national identities. But for all the attention devoted to the mounting demands of war, not to mention the course of individual battles and campaigns, not enough has been written about the United Kingdom’s troubled transition to peace. As Evan Wilson points out in his lucid and considered new book, Waterloo is too often treated as a beginning or end point in the historiography, with veterans taking centre stage for the defeat of Napoleon only to quickly vanish from view.’
1812 and all that 