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from Part IV - The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2022
On 21 August 1914, Karl von Einem passed the field of Waterloo. Formerly the Prussian minister of war, he was now commanding VII Corps in the German 2nd Army as it swung through Belgium towards northern France. This, he wrote, was ‘where the tragedy of Napoleon had reached its dramatic conclusion 99 years before’. Although visiting for the first time, von Einem felt he knew the ground well from his earlier studies of the battle, despite the changes to the Brussels road and the construction of the Lion pyramid. What did surprise him was how confined the battlefield was compared with what he anticipated in the war that had just begun.1
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