Wellington: The Iron Duke (Text Only)

✍ Scribed by Holmes, Richard

• Book ID: 108691025
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 269 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier. Seeing Wellington as a remarkable figure, Holmes follows his career from the ruins of his family seat in Ireland to the plains of India where Wellesley first gained his reputation as a brilliant commander, to the horrors of the Peninsular War and Waterloo. Combining his astute historical analysis with semi-biographical examination, Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time.