Date : 2003
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 0-00-713750-8
ISBN : 978-0-00-713750-3
Wellington -- Arthur Wellesley -- 1769-1852 -- duc de
Généraux -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Grande-Bretagne -- 1760-1820 (Georges III)
Classification Dewey : 941.07092
Résumé / Abstract : In this compelling book, Richard Holmes charts the life of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest-ever soldier. He follows Wellington's remarkable 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. Holmes sees Wellington as a brilliant figure, idealistic in politics, cynical in love, a wit, a beau, a man of enormous courage and iron duty often sickened by the horrors of war.