Illustrations Maps Preface 1 Ireland 2 Early Days 3 Learning the
Trade 4 Sepoy General 5 Vimeiro to Coruna 6 Talavera 7 The Defence
of Portugal 8 The Keys to the Kingdom
9 Into Spain 10 The Year of Victory 11 France
12 Napoeon's Return 13 Waterloo 14 The Later Days 15 Epilogue Notes
Bibliogaphy Index
A substantial biography of 'the greatest British general of any age' available in paperback for the first time.
Gordon Corrigan is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front (1999), Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain in the First World War (Cassell, 2003), Loos - The Unwanted Battle (Spellmount, 2006) and Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006).
"Political, fluent, well-researched and extremely
argumentative"
*Andrew Roberts*
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