 As well as uniquely conveying the immediacy of events through Wellington's thought-processes and human voice, "Wellington's War" does more than any other book on the subject to illustrate the dimension and brilliance of Wellington's genius.The Duke himself has a habit of cropping up in various of Rathbone's fictions, notably in "Joseph" and "A Very English Agent" and, more hauntingly, in "Blame Hitler", the novel in which Rathbone writes about his own father.Rathbone described his own interest in Wellington as "probably Oedipal", and the Duke as "the ultimate father-figure".