Where Were You at Waterloo?

One morning the Gobelin Guards are trooping the colour. The next day they are flown out to the Indian Ocean to resist an invasion of British Casuarina.



Vainly awaiting the intruding enemy from a neighbouring republic, they instead become hilariously entangled with local escorts seeking medication and marriage, an expense-hungry war correspondent filing stories of imaginary battles, and a film director staging scenes for an army recruitment documentary.



This, Nicholas Best’s first novel, is a brief but hilarious satire of British military life which traces the antics of the Gobelin Guards from central London to the Indian Ocean.




Praise for Where Were You at Waterloo?:

‘As a satire on military bigotry and shambling officialdom Where Were You at Waterloo? is in places as sharp as Waugh and sometimes better’ - The Times Literary Supplement



‘All good, clean fun and never heavy-handed’ - Daily Telegraph



‘Passages of pure comic pleasure’ - The Spectator



Nicholas Best was born in London in 1948. He was educated at Pembroke House, Kenya, the King’s School, Canterbury, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was treasurer of the union and editor of the university magazine. He served on a short-service commission in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist before becoming a full-time author. He has published a range of fiction and non-fiction works.