Whoops! I thought I was getting the original, two-volume work, which Susannah Clarke noted as a useful source for her wonderful novel "Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell," in a single volume edition. I should have looked at the number of pages. Not having read Longford's original work, I won't venture to criticize it based on this far over-abridged edition, but I will warn anyone who is looking for more than a longish magazine article about the Iron Duke to stay away. ( )