by W. Hyde Kelly. Reprint of 1905 edition by Worley Publications. £ 18.00 A most readable account of a much neglected aspect of the Cam-paign of 1815. Napoleon passed the blame for his defeat onto Ney and Grouchy. His accusations were as unjust and they were untrue. Hyde Kelly's essay goes part of the way to setting the record straight as far as Grouchy goes. One of the great "what ifs" of the Waterloo Campaign has been to consider the effects of Grouchy arriving on Wellington's flank on 18th June, another "what if" that has attracted less attention is the possibility that Napoleon could have rallied his defeated troops behind Grouchy's intact force and continued the campaign. Grouchy came into his own once Napoleon was no longer giving him orders. His retreat on Paris was skilfully conducted and a mili-tary success. Hyde Kelly's account, interesting though it is, consists only of his notes in published form. It is not a schol-arly work with a bibliography and footnotes so the reader is left no indications of where to read further on the matter. A shame really. Hopefully somebody will one day write on this subject in greater detail. Recommended. More Reviews Osprey Campaign Titles Memoirs of Marshall Ney Waterloo Campaign June 1815 Wellington at Waterloo Battle of Wavre Altpreussische Armee von 1787-1806/7 Fanfaro II 1812: The March on Moscow Back to Table of Contents -- First Empire #18 Back to First Empire List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1994 by First Empire. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com