Waterhouse always said his decision to quit the left-leaning newspaper was down to one man - the imposing owner Robert Maxwell, whom he nicknamed Cap'n Bob and who had tried to insist he wrote an opinionated piece on trades union ballots.
For the most part, Young draws on a wide assortment of politicians, civil servants, union officials, diplomats and others to piece together the subtext of British politics.
The abandonment of the European Union's arms embargo on Syria is a piece of diplomatic signalling that could prove as confused in its effects as it was in its origins.
And "Repulse of General Johnson's Division by General Geary's White Star Division" depicts the seven-hour battle for Culp's Hill, a piece of strategic high ground that was basically the last thrust by the Confederate forces against the Union right flank.