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The Duke Of Wellington Was Not Just Britainʹs Greatest Soldier, Although His Seismic Struggles As Leader Of The Allied Forces Against Napoleon In The Peninsular War Deservedly Became The Stuff Of British National Legend. Wellington Was Much More: A Man Of Vision Beyond Purely Military Matters, A Politically Astute Thinker, And A Canny Diplomat As Well As Lover, Husband, And Friend. Rory Muirʹs Masterful New Biography, The First Of A Two-volume Set, Is The Fruit Of A Lifetimeʹs Research And Discovery Into Wellington And His Times. The Author Brings Wellington Into Much Sharper Focus Than Ever Before, Addressing His Masterstrokes And Mistakes In Equal Measure. Muir Looks At All Aspects Of Wellingtonʹs Career, From His Unpromising Youth Through His Remarkable Successes In India And His Role As Junior Minister In Charge Of Ireland, To His Controversial Military Campaigns. With Dramatic Descriptions Of Major Battles And How They Might Have Turned Out Differently, The Author Underscores The Magnitude Of Wellingtonʹs Achievements. The Biography Is The First To Address The Major Significance Of Wellingtonʹs Political Connections And Shrewdness, And To Set His Career Within The Wider Histor

Author

Rory Muir

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300205480

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.48 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13