The Duke

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, was the outstanding soldier of his age. Over five years, in a series of brilliant campaigns, Wellington defeated Napoleon’s best armies, and top Marshals – Ionia, Soult and Marmont, as well as Bonaparte’s brother Joseph. The Duke is an impressive biography of one of Britain’s greatest heroes, written in a glittering epigrammatic style that is typical of Guedalla’s witty and sympathetic understanding of his subject.