The Duke

by Philip Guedalla

Book Overview

As well as defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, Wellington went on to become one of Europe's most influential statesman and on of Britain's most reactionary Prime Ministers. At the time of his death he was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853266795
• ISBN13: 9781853266799
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Combined Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable!

In contrast to the previous reviewer, I found this book very enjoyable. Mr. Guedalla has a droll sense of humor that was very refreshing. I have read several other biographies of Wellington so I did not receive much new information from this one. (However, to be fair, this book was written in the 1930's and so the more recent biographies cover the same ground as Mr. Guedalla, not vice versa.)Despite this, because of the excellent writing, I still strongly recommend this book.