"In Lie at the Heart of Waterloo: The Battle’s Hidden Last Half-Hour, Sale argues that the Duke of Wellington knowingly and purposely obfuscated the truth about the Prussians being the ones to break Napoleon’s Imperial Garde. He did so for his own personal gain because if published battlefield accounts had shown that the Prussians turned the tide of victory at Waterloo, he would not have been remembered as the General who defeated Napoleon and the one ultimately responsible for ushering in Europe’s peaceful period. Sale’s historical detective work shows how Wellington spent decades after the Battle of Waterloo protecting his story at all costs. It includes evidence of Wellington bankrupting and sidelining Captain William Siborne, the Officer who was commissioned to produce a model of the Battle of Waterloo at its crisis point that is now known as the Siborne Model, and evidence of his prompting a Spanish ally and friend, Gen d’Álava, to publish a falsified account of events in the Madrid Gazette and The Times of London. Sale even suggests that Wellington’s secretary and compiler of The Duke of Wellington’s Dispatches 1799-1815, LTC John Gurwood, committed suicide after finding evidence of Wellington’s wrongdoing. Sale implies this unfortunate act was prompted by the potentially severe consequences and public censure of simply knowing about the wrongdoings of the Duke of Wellington. These are certainly serious accusations brought against one of England’s most notable heroes, but the uncovered evidence and claim will now allow Wellington scholars to more closely analyze the Allied lessons learned of the Battle of Waterloo."