A German language account of the 'pre-battle' of Waterloo around the Belle-Alliance Inn. The eminent Napoleonic historian Peter Hofschroer notes that the author of this 1903 work, Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, was "probably the most prolific Waterloo historian to have lived" and that this work is one of his two most useful books: "probably the most exhaustively researched examination of the events leading up to the Battle of Waterloo written. After the Battle of Waterloo, at around 21:00, Prince Blucher and the Duke of Wellington met close to the inn signifying the end of the fighting. Blucher,...