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In 1815, many of the British aristocracy, succumbing to the tendency of their class to fall heavily into debt, were expats living in Brussels. The British aristocracy also supplied the British Army with officers, and during the build-up to the battle, there were lavish balls and parties as the line between social and military life blurred. In his introduction Foulkes explains how their story reminds him of a disaster film, where people live the high life with little regard for the approaching calamity, and where courage and cowardice, glamour and horror, are exposed. Spine is wrinkled. Some pages of color plates are loose. A Phoenix Paperback. 2007. Paper. USED. $3.00 Show more