Wellington Through Time Revised Edition

Wellington Through Time Revised Edition
Author: Allan Frost
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445652056

The fascinating history of Wellington in Shropshire illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.

Wellington

Wellington
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0586091092

This single volume study of Wellington's life and times is based on modern research. Wellington achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain was rewarded by a dukedom and a grant from the house of Commons which would today be worth some u8 million. After his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo he embarked on his second career as a politician. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army for life, became Prime Minister in 1827 and a byword for High Toryism while presiding over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country's first police force. Unhappily married, he had several mistresses and many intimate friendships with women."

A Life Without Limits

A Life Without Limits
Author: Chrissie Wellington
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1455510939

In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the oceans of New Zealand, and the trails of Argentina, and first across the finish line. Wellington's first-hand, inspiring story includes all the incredible challenges she has faced--from anorexia to near--drowning to training with a controversial coach. But to Wellington, the drama of the sports also presents an opportunity to use sports to improve people's lives. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS reveals the heart behind Wellington's success, along with the diet, training and motivational techniques that keep her going through one of the world's most grueling events.

Wellington

Wellington
Author: Carlo DeVito
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781572438729

The definitive biography of one of the longest-serving, most highly accomplished, and well-respected owners in professional sports--Wellington Mara--this book details the life of the pioneer for the NFL who understood what it took to make the league great.

Wellington as Military Commander

Wellington as Military Commander
Author: Michael Glover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Generals
ISBN: 9780141390512

Drawing on lively accounts of privates, sergeants, officers and Wellington himself, with unrivalled descriptions of strategy, weapons and formations, it takes us right into the heart of the battlefield."--BOOK JACKET.

An Unsettled History

An Unsettled History
Author: Alan Ward
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1877242691

An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and those to come. New Zealand’s short history unquestionably reveals a treaty made and then repeatedly breached. This is a compelling case – for fair and reasonable settlement, and for the rigorous continuation of the Treaty claims process through the Waitangi Tribunal. The impact of the past upon the present has rarely been analysed so clearly, or to such immediate purpose.

Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808-1814

Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808-1814
Author: Jac Weller
Publisher: Frontline Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781848326538

This classic account of Wellington s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign. Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous battles that he brings to life once more, with the aid of meticulous research, extensive visits to and photographs of the battlefields themselves, and an unwavering ability to cut a clear path through tangled military events. Wellington in the Peninsula brilliantly demonstrates how a great commander finally achieved victory after six years of battle against Napoleon s army.

Wellington at Waterloo

Wellington at Waterloo
Author: Jac Weller
Publisher: Frontline Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 184832586X

Jac Weller studies every move and counter-move of the battle, recreating not only the actions and tactics of the two great leaders but the epic engagements and clashes between the troops themselves that were pivotal for the victory or defeat. The author also studies the related battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny. He takes the reader with him onto the battlefield of Waterloo, a terrain whose features are still recongnisable today, and which is bought to life for the reader by detailed maps and by the authors vivid and riveting descriptions of the progress of the fighting.This completely original approach, appreciated by the Times Literary Supplement on the books first publication, strikes as fresh today, and this new edition, with an introduction specially written for it by the author, will be eagerly read by military enthusiasts and general reader alike.

Overwinter

Overwinter
Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307460800

The days grow colder. The nights grow longer. And every time the moon rises, the wolf inside her grows a little stronger. Cheyenne Clark—a woman whose hatred for werewolves has turned her into the very beast she most despises—prowls the Arctic Circle on the trail of an ancient secret, hunting for the one thing that could remove the lycanthropic curse and make her human again. Yet standing between Chey and her goal are a werewolf hunter armed with a diabolically brilliant weapon, a centuries-old werewolf with her own mysterious agenda…and Chey’s own complicated feelings for the man who doomed her to this existence but on whom her life now depends. Worse, with every hour that passes, the wolf inside Chey becomes more powerful. It won’t be long before the woman disappears completely, and only the beast is left.

Architects of Empire

Architects of Empire
Author: John Kenneth Severn
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806138107

A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings. Severn takes readers from the British Raj in India to the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars to the halls of Parliament as he traces the rise of the five brothers from obscurity to prominence. Severn covers both the imperial Indian period before 1800 and the domestic political period after 1820, describing the wide range of experiences Arthur and his brothers lived through. Architects of Empire brings together in a single volume a grand story that before now was discernible only through political or military analysis. Weaving the personal history of the brothers into a captivating narrative, it tells of sibling rivalry among men who were by turns generous and supportive, then insensitive and cruel. Whereas other historians have minimized the importance of family ties, Severn provides an unusually nuanced understanding of the Duke of Wellington. Architects of Empire casts his career in a new light--one that will surprise those who believe they already know the man.