The Life and Times of the Duke of Wellington 1769-1852 by Leonard Cooper

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good. 1963. Good, Mead & Company. 1st Edition.

The Wellington Era was notable in giving rise to one of the greatest of Britain's outstanding leaders, and it is about the imposing figure of the Iron Duke that this book revolves. His Eaton days and his apprenticeship years as a soldier in India, the great Peninsular campaigns against the French, the subsequent defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the subsequent Prime Ministership and varied diplomatic and politicalachievements are all here in a stirring and dramatic chroncile of great men and events. Mostly Wellington is the hero of the book, his significant shadow falling across all Europe of his day and only in his closing decades becoming a symbol of the past, rather than the future.