Has sentimental remembrance met its Waterloo?

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Artists of the time – such as Turner and Byron – showed the full horror of its slaughter. Let’s not resort to fake empathy or cheap mawkishness nowIt was a bloody national sacrifice, and we must mourn the men who gave their lives for this country. This is a year to be proud of them.That’s the conclusion of an article about the Battle of Waterloo in the Daily Telegraph: “The bodies still lying beneath the fields of Waterlo