Jac Weller's famous trilogy Wellington in India, Wellington in the Peninsula and Wellington at Waterloo is internationally renowned. Now this new book On Wellington: The Duke and his Art of War presents a collection of sparkling, erudite and entertaining essays on Wellington's generalship and military genius, and provides an excellent survey of the Duke's art of war and the secrets of his success. This collection of articles by a foremost and much loved authority on Wellington incorporates valuable insights from walking Wellington's battlefields over many years, and covers the key elements of the Duke's military achievements and qualities. Weller examines Wellington's mastery of logistics, his use of guerrillas in the Peninsular War, his system of intelligence, his skilful handling of the battle of Busaco, his tactics at Waterloo, and much more. Weller also considers how Wellington might have fared at Gettysburg. Following Jac Weller's recent death all his papers went to the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University. The contents of this book have been gathered from these papers, and some of the articles have been published previously over the years in military journals and others are entirely unseen until now. Andrew Uffindell, author of The Eagle's Last Triumph and, with Michael Corum, On The Fields of Glory, has edited them for publication, providing additional perspectives. In his Preface to On Wellington, His Grace the Duke of Wellington writes: "It gave me great pleasure when I heard that Greenhill Books were to publish these collected articles of Jac and Cornelia Weller, for, apart from my enormous respect for the Wellers' knowledge of my ancestor, they were old and dear friends. I first met them many years ago when they came to stay with my father when Jac was starting his research of our papers prior to writing his great trilogy of books on the Great Duke's military career. Subsequently I saw them frequently here or on 'Wellington' occasions elsewhere. They were a charming couple - mildly and delightfully eccentric - who constantly surprised me with the breadth and unexpectedness of their interests. As Jac's books were published he was kind enough to give me copies and these accompanied me whenever I visited the Great Duke's battlefields in India, the Iberian Peninsula and finally Waterloo. I have always maintained that, from a military point of view, Jac's books were unsurpassed in giving a clear account of events as they unfolded, including a detailed picture of the units and weaponry involved on both sides. Jac was well qualified to do this as he was an expert on the weapons of the period. Jac was a very remarkable man: a distinguished military history expert, a fine athlete in his youth, a weapons expert and an adviser on the subject to governments, and, above all, an articulate and fascinating writer." To celebrate the publication of this new book by Jac Weller, Greenhill Books is also bringing out the first paperback edition of his bestselling Wellington at Waterloo. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 84 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com