Charles Dalton (1850–1913) is a classic author whose works are in the public domain.
Dalton's meticulously researched chronicle of the soldiers who fought at Waterloo moves beyond grand military strategy to resurrect individual lives—officers and enlisted men whose personal letters and anecdotes reveal the chaos, fear, and camaraderie beneath the history books' abstractions. Each biographical entry restores humanity to a battle often reduced to statistics.
