Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners; interesting lives made extraordinarily dull

The Battle of Rivoli was my twenty-second substantial victory (for my definition of ‘substantial’ see Appendix IV, ‘Definitions’)…’ Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

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