'WELLINGTON'S VOICE. THE CANDID LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN FREMANTLE, COLDSTREAM GUARDS, 1808-1837' edited by Gareth Glover.

This edition 2012. Published by Frontline Books. 

Hardback with Dust-Wrapper. Measures: 6.5 by 9.5 inches. 335 pages. Illustrated in colour & black & white. 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN FREMANTLE WAS on Wellington's personal staff through the later years of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign. He had a uniquely privileged view of the general and in this fascinating book, which brings together a collection of personal letters written to his uncle, he speaks candidly of his exploits, good and bad.

Fremantle deals with military matters in fascinating detail and gives a great insight into Wellington's honest views of matters  not the sanitised diplomatic versions Wellington allowed to be published in later life. He also talks a great deal about the personalities in 'Wellington's family' and the 'Great Man', giving very open, forthright views of their strengths and failings and brings many little-known incidents to light. 

He describes the back-stabbing, the one-upmanship and the intriguing within Wellington's inner circle and reveals the foibles of the duke himself; his philandering, his irascible nature, and his own petty intrigues and jealousies. 

The contents, hard covers & dust-wrapper ( not clipped) are in near mint/as new condition. No inscriptions.