Wellington: A Personal History

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This single volume study of Wellington's life and times is based on modern research. Wellington achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain was rewarded by a dukedom and a grant from the house of Commons which would today be worth some #8 million. After his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo he embarked on his second career as a politician. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army for life, became Prime Minister in 1827 and a byword for High Toryism while presiding over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country's first police force. Unhappily married, he had several mistresses and many intimate friendships with women.

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Christopher Hibbert was described in the New Statesman as a pearl of biographers, in the Sunday Times as a gloriously versatile writer, and in the TES as perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have. His many highly acclaimed books include lives of Mussolini, Samuel Johnson, Wellington, Nelson, Queen Victoria and Napoleon; biographies of cities such as London (The Encyclopaedia of London), Rome, (The Encyclopaedia of Rome), Venice and Florence; histories of the Cavaliers and Roundheads and The Great Mutiny, and a social history of the English.