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An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war. By 1780, the British...

This fully illustrated study investigates the uniforms and equipment of the US regular troops and volunteers from the territories fighting for the Union during the American Civil War. During the...

Researched from genuine primary sources, this is the first book to explain and illustrate the organization, activities and personal stories of the female 'support staff' who played a major role...

After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody...

The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had...

Minute-by-minute eyewitness accounts of 'Britain's finest hour' Trafalgar set the seal on British naval supremacy, the most strategically significant victory in the age of sail. It was also one of...

While many books have been published on Waterloo, none have rivalled this in either scale or authority. The text, based on Adkin's fastidious research, including many days spent on the...

The many illustrations include paintings of uniforms, 'portraits' of individual ships, drawings illustrating details of how the ships were constructed and worked by their crews, maps and battle diagrams all...

This beautifully illustrated guide by master draughtsman and Napoleonic expert Carl Franklin draws together extensive research and previously unpublished information to provide a new insight into the field artillery and...

From 17 trunks in a Lakeland attic comes this eyewitness account of a soldier's life at a pivotal moment in the history of the British Empire. Allan Marriot Hutchins, handsome,...

A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of...

This classic book about the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson is now re-issued in paperback alongside its sister volume, Waterloo: A Near Run Thing

May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still...

Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the...

"Robust and focused" - The Wall Street Journal "History at its insightful and mesmerizing best" - Nathaniel Philbrick Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how...

The book titled A Rising Thunder: From Lincoln's Election to the Battle of Bull Run: by the author Richard Wheeler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us...

Small men, with big egos and moustaches, the hussars of Napoleon's army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. The uniforms of the seventeen regiments...

With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on...

Created during the Peace of Amiens, the nineteen regiments of cuirassiers that existed during the course of the 1e Empire were, after the Imperial Guard, perhaps the most famous and...

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,...

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...

Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS 'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a...

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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...

They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan...

First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...

The first work to put forward a unified theory of how state and non-state threats now overlap and intersect. The first work to put forward a unified theory of how...

Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...

For over a century, the Middle East has been riven by conflict driven by Jewish and Arab nationalism. They came about at the same point in history with claims over...

This volume in 'Conway's Compass Series' integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of the...

" In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."--- The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the...

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...

After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody...

The book titled The Complete Military History of the Vietnam War by the author Douglas Welsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

At a time when military commanders in Europe were royal princes and dukes, Napoleon's marshals were often the sons of peasants or clerks. And they were usually half the age...

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and...

The battle began at about eleven-thirty on a Sunday morning in June 1815. By nine o'clock that night, forty thousand men lay dead or wounded among the Belgian cornfields, and...

This collection of letters from survivors of the Waterloo Campaign was gathered in the 1830s and 1840s when Captain William Siborne was trying to verify the chronological events of the...

This is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published. It is based on the papers of its commander Sir Henry Clinton and it reveals for...

The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time....

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...

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...

The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from...

In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...

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...

Ensign Charles Paget's previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons. The regiment in which he served - the 52nd Foot - was one...