WELLINGTON. The path to victory 1769-1814; Waterloo and the fortunes of peace 1814-1852
Wellington, Duke of; Muir, Rory
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2013
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In two volumes, totalling more than 1,400 pages, 64 coloured and black & white plates, text maps; med. 8vo; blue boards, spines lettered in gilt; dust wrappers, lower edge of back panel for Volume 1 chipped; chronology, endnotes, bibliography, indices; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, lower free endpaper of the second volume last on lower pastedown (production fault); Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2013; 2015. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 176269
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Titel: WELLINGTON. The path to victory 1769-1814; ...
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
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(2 Volume Set) Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814; Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace, 1814-1852
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015
ISBN 10: 0300186657
ISBN 13: 9780300186659
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes are First Editions with full number lines indicating First Printings. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvi, 728pp.; xiv, 713pp. Books present nicely with unclipped dust jackets wrapped in protective archival sleeves. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jackets. Volumes are bound in blue paper over boards with spines lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are square and sound. ABOUT VOLUME I: The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny diplomat as well as lover, husband, and friend. Rory Muir's masterful new biography, the first of a two-volume set, is the fruit of a lifetime's research and discovery into Wellington and his times. The author brings Wellington into much sharper focus than ever before, addressing his masterstrokes and mistakes in equal measure. Muir looks at all aspects of Wellington's career, from his unpromising youth through his remarkable successes in India and his role as junior minister in charge of Ireland, to his controversial military campaigns. With dramatic descriptions of major battles and how they might have turned out differently, the author underscores the magnitude of Wellington's achievements. The biography is the first to address the major significance of Wellington's political connections and shrewdness, and to set his career within the wider history of British politics and the war against Napoleon. The volume also revises Wellington's reputation for being cold and aloof, showing instead a man of far more complex and interesting character.(Publisher) ABOUT VOLUME II: In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir's definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington's significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legend of the selfless hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington's determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers and resisting radical agitation while granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland rather than risk civil war. And countering one-dimensional pictures of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a portrait of a well-rounded man whose austere demeanor on the public stage belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self.(Publisher). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16243
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