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Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007383498
In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007137508
Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington s remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes superb skill in this compelling book. Richard Holmes charts Wellington s stellar military career from India to Europe, and in the process, rediscovers the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the nineteenth century had produced. Combining his astute historical analysis with a semi-biographical examination of Wellington, Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time. Wellington is a brilliant figure, idealistic in politics, cynical in love, a wit, a beau, a man of enormous courage often sickened by war. As Richard Holmes charts his progress from a shy, indolent boy to commander-in-chief of the allied forces, he also exposes the Iron Duke as a philanderer, and a man who sometimes despised the men that he led, and was not always in control of his soldiers. Particularly infamous is the bestial rampage of his men after the capture of Cuidad Rodgrigo and Badajoz. THE IRON DUKE is a beautifully produced book, complete with stunning illustrations and colour plates. Richard Holmes TV series to accompany THE IRON DUKE will be lavishly constructed in four parts, and filmed on location in Britain, India, Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium.
Author : H. W. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1881*
Category : Generals
ISBN : OCLC:500820941
Author : Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.),Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018561562
Author : Patrick Dalaforce
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844680221
The military achievements of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, have been well documented and deservedly so. Inevitably his fame and success made him attractive, nay irresistible, to the opposite sex and over the many years of his campaigning away from home he came into contact with a great number of beautiful and powerful ladies. Patrick Delaforce focuses in a tasteful way on these relationships which often had an important influence on the Great Man ' and occasionally on the shape of history. Many of his encounters were undoubtedly platonic, others certainly not.
Author : Ruscombe Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:884991448
Author : H. G. Widdowson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470758274
Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined. Written by a leading researcher in the field Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed
Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110413312
A short biography of Wellington, the Iron Duke, one of the best known military commanders of British history. Covers not only Wellington the war hero and Waterloo, but also his political career and Wellington the ladies' man and his marriage to Kitty Pakenham.
Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007406944
A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain’s leading popular historian.
Author : Damian Walford Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135899660
The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicism’s inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicism’s "history" and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticism’s hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415337269
Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX3PMM
Author : Patrick Delaforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Generals
ISBN : 0900075767
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:66858014
Author : W. H. Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473560869
