Wellington, The Iron Duke
   by Richard Holmes

keeping with the 19th Century theme here, I read this book, since I did get from the Crimean War book that he was still alive, at least in the run up to the hostility.
Course those days, there was always some battle going on in Europe.
I didn't realize that Wellington, or Arthur Wellesley as he was named, was Prime Minister at one point. Quite the lady's man apparently, his wife must've been very lonely.