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Peninsular Eyewitnesses: the Experience of War in Spain and Portugal
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsular. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a...
UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy...
An Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution,
The Atlas of Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution provides a comprehensive visual summary of the campaigns, major battles and minor skirmishes of the war. The atlas includes over...
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
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THE ASSASSINS' GATE: AMERICA IN IRAQ recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. It...
The Boer war
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Dutch historian Martin Bossenbroek won the National Dutch History Prize 2013 for this new chronicle of the war that shaped South Africa and the book was also shortlisted for the...
The Great Siege of Malta
A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic...
A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of Winston Churchill. The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of...
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...
Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War
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The Civil War the bloodiest, most dramatic moment in this nation's history also produced some of the country's greatest literature. Blood reflects the violent hatred, love, patriotism, and heroism this...
The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke
Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast disappearing. Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Confederate physician and expert in infectious diseases, had...
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the...
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the
"Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness," reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor...
Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as...
Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War,
The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole-during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians...
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis As Commander In Chief
From the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind...
Great Gambles of the Civil War
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In this masterly account of thirteen dramatic military gambles, Katcher shows how on each occasion, the odds for success or failure were finely calculated and the desperate chance then taken.
Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent
Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India, the Sudan,...
Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln
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Originally published in 1926, it was the author's belief that the constitutional developments of the civil war had far reaching significance and that they deserved a fuller treatment than they...
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,...
America's Unending Civil War: The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown
The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war's issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the...
12 Strong Film Tie-in
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...
Receding Tide
A single day: July 4, 1863, brought to a conclusion two of the most infamous battles of the Civil War. In the west, after six months under siege, Vicksburg Mississippi,...
Paths to Victory: A History and Tour Guide of the Stone's River,
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The fourth volume in The Civil War Campaign Series covers every aspect of the campaigns in central and southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Includes a tour guide. Illustrated and indexed....
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of
This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
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...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent
'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has...
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
The gripping bestselling account of the largest military campaign ever, by the much-acclaimed WW2 historian Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a...
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...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
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An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines...
Chronicles of the Crusades
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A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint...
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge: The extraordinary story of the Australian campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea's Finisterre mountains in 1943-44
'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy...
The Crimean War and Irish society
The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
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...