Hibbert, Christopher, — WELLINGTON - A Personal History.
HarperCollins, London, 1997, trade paperback, xvi, 460pp, 8pp coloured and 16pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, as well as a brilliant soldier, famous for fighting the Mahrartta in India and rewarded for his defeat of Napoleon with a Dukedom, Wellington was also a social man, unhappily married, a politician who became Prime Minister, an influentail advisor to the monarch and was deeply involved in many of the intrigues and scandals of the time, rubbed at tips and upper hinge, faint vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,