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Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 50.00This study is crucial to the socio-political history of France from 17891830. more...
The Battle
Atlantic Books Ltd 2013; US$ 10.19At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero's majestic account combines British and French histories to give voice to all nationions involved. The Battle is a masterpiece of military history. 'This is not just the best book on Waterloo I've read, it's also... more...
A Boy in the Peninsular War
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 16.49The Peninsular War was the first of Britains many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. Its author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an... more...
Mirage
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 11.99Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt, where reports of mysterious monuments, inscrutable hieroglyphics,... more...
Charging Against Wellington
Pen and Sword 2011; US$ 35.00Like the authors previous book, The British Army Against Napoleon, Charging Against Wellington draws heavily on primary sources, manuals, memoirs, and regimental histories to bring to life the officers and men of the regiments that fought.The book is divided into three sections. The first contains biographies of 80 generals who led the French... more...
France, 1814-1940
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 32.95This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs. The history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics of France's... more...
Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula 1808-1814 Vol 1
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 20.49Written almost a century after the events they describe, Lewis Butler's two volumes on Wellington's Peninsula War campaigns have rightly been judged a classic of military history. The story of how the Iron Duke turned disaster into triumph, and defeat into a final victory, has surely never been told with more authority.Butler's first volume... more...
Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula 1808-1814 Vol 2
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 20.49Written almost a century after the events they describe, Lewis Butler's two volumes on Wellington's Peninsula War campaigns have rightly been judged a classic of military history. The story of how the Iron Duke turned disaster into triumph, and defeat into a final victory, has surely never been told with more authority.Volume Two begins with... more...
The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95In 1814-1815, after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of the most important countries in Europe gathered together to redraw the frontiers of their continent. The Congress of Vienna explores the attempt by Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia to agree Europe's new frontiers after almost twenty years of continuous fighting against... more...
The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 38.95Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the... more...









