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D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Battle For The Normandy Beaches
On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that...
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in...
A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the
Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) ranked among the most important generals who fought with Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. A brigade and corps commander, he played principal roles...
Reflections on Lee: A Historian's Assessment
A sharply focused chronicle of Lee's life and a meditation on the general's career and his place in history, this biography is a thoughtful response to some of the more...
With My Face To The Enemy: Perspectives on the American Civil War
A brilliant collection of essays on the most vital conflict in America's history, written by renowned historians and presented by the editor of the acclaimed WHAT IF? WITH MY FACE...
American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman
A century and a half after the Civil War, Sherman remains one of its most controversial figures-the soldier who brought the fight not only to the Confederate Army, but to...
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
When Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomiums such as these: "A masterly performance . . . one of the most thorougly dignified, one of the...
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership
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General Robert E. Lee was a complicated man and military figure. In Robert E. Lee, the 11th book in the critically acclaimed Great Generals Series, Noah Andre Trudeau follows the...
The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations
A definitive book of quotations with comments not only from generals (such as General Sherman's "War is hell,") and presidents (Lincoln's description of army recruitment/retention as "trying to shovel fleas....
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of...
Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who
The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women...
Military Memoirs Of A Confederate
General Edward Porter Alexander was the master gunner of the Confederacy, and undeniably one of the great American artillerists. He was involved in nearly all of the great battles of...
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship
... cuts squarely across the accepted tradition... Fuller examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition." -New York Times Book...
1815: The Return of Napoleon: Bonaparte's March Back to Power
This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds of...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell
This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army,...
The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell
As the rogue captain of the last Confederate commerce raider, the Shenandoah , James Waddell was a huge thorn in the side of the post-Civil War administration (they branded him...
Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War
This book tells the story of the two assassination trials, exploring what made them pivotal in American history. Were they used to make the South pay for secession? Were they...
Beating Napoleon: How Britain Faced Down Her Greatest Challenge
'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find...
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars: Roundheads, Cavaliers and the Execution of the King
Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history....
Napoleon the Great
The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of...
Vital Rails: The Civil War History of the Charleston and Savannah
Completed in 1860 and spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the...
British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807
In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards...
American Sharpe
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father's...
Charging Against Wellington: the French Cavalry in the Peninsular War,
Like the author's 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...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic
This is the story of two young Welsh cavalry officers who served for much of the Napoleonic Wars with the 15th (King's) Hussars. Major Edwin Griffith and his nephew, Captain...
The War in the Peninsula and Recollections of the Storming of the
The War in the PeninsulaIan Fletcher, who provides introductions to both these memoirs, is an acknowledged expert on the Napoleonic wars and is the author of best-selling Wellington's Regiments, amongst...
The Napoleonic Wars
This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who...
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South
As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...
Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded...
Escape from Elba, The: the Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty qrmies back to PAris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his...
Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars V 2
Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery,...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First
In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...
Alternative History of Britain: The War of the Roses
Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given...
On the Fields of Glory
This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a new and stimulating account of the epic confrontation at Waterloo and, in addition, acts as a reliable guide to the battlefield...
Road to Marston Moor, The
The Battle of Marston Moor on 2 July, 1644, was a key battle in English history. It was the largest battle of the Civil Wars, and it was decisive. The...
Wellington's Headquarters
Wellington s Headquarters is an essential introduction to the administration of the British army in the early nineteenth century. It offers a fascinating insight into the structure and operation of...
Washington: Lessons in Leadership
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Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram
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Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of Colonel William C. Oates
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Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was...
Wellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813
Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's...
Following in the Footsteps of Oliver Cromwell: A Historical Guide to the Civil War
Oliver Cromwell is one of the most important figures in British History. He was both soldier and politician and the only non-Royal ruler of Britain in a thousand years. His...
The Hunt for Moore's Gold: Investigating the Loss of the British Amy's Military Chest During the Retreat to Corunna
History abounds with unresolved puzzles and unanswered questions, none more so than that of the loss of the British Army's military chest during the retreat to Corunna in 1809. Sir...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...