Buy this book on-line DAVIES, HUW J: : WELLINGTON'S WARS: The Making of a Military GeniusUK.YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS,2012. ISBN 9780300164176.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.Although with US Library of Congress Cataloguing-in- Publication data,book was printed in Padstow,Cornwall,Great Britain.]FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - possibly an export edn/issue.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj (detail from a painting 'The Duke of Wellington at
Waterloo' by Robert Alexander Hillingford),with russet+black lettering,
white letteing to spine and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.
Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,
publisher's original plain chocolate brown
cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,
vii-xvipp+2-303pp [paginated] includes illustrations+maps lists/tables,a preface,
9 chapters and a conclusion,8pp contemporary facsimile b/w reproduction illustrations in 1 block,between pp112/3,
12 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,abbreviations,notes,a bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page,and contents list/table.
Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington,
lives on in popular memory as the
'Invincible General',loved by his men,
admired by his peers,formidable to his opponents.This incisive book revises such a portrait,offering an accurate - and controversial - new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career.
Unlike his adversary Napoleon,Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent,Huw J. Davies argues.Instead,the key to Wellington's success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.
Drawing on extensive primary research,
Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India,where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns,organise and use intelligence,and negotiate with allies.In later campaigns and battles,including the Peninsular War and Waterloo,Wellington's genius for strategy,operations and tactics
emerged.For his success in the art of war,
he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician.This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible - with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
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