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  • Napoleon's Polish Gamble

    Eylau & Friedland 1807

    by Christopher Summerville ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    Napoleon's 1807 campaign against the Russians came close to being his first defeat. At Eylau the Emperor was outnumbered by the army of the Russian commander Bennigsen, yet he accepted battle. His reputation was saved by the flamboyant Murat, who led one of the greatest cavalry charges in history. Christopher Summerville's gripping account of this bitterly fought clash and of Napoleon's subsequent ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who was Who at Waterloo

    A Biography of the Battle

    by Christopher Summerville ...
    Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book, a biographical dictionary, and a myth-busting expose, Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to historys most famous battle.Arranged in alphabetical order, and with ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The German Offensives of 1918

    The Last Desperate Gamble

    by Ian Passingham ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    The author of All the Kaiser's Men provides "a very helpful reference . . . to the battles which finally led to the German Army's defeat in the field." — The Western Front AssociationFew pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918. It was a momentous period, which began with Germany's desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes

    The First Twenty-Four Hours

    by Artem Drabkin, Alexei Isaev, Christopher Summerville ...
    22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians, 22 June 1941 was a critical point in their nation's history. After the first day of Barbarossa ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War for the Throne

    The Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403

    by John Barratt ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    "Paints a vivid picture of such battles as Pilleth in Wales, Homildon Hill in Scotland and of course Shrewsbury, so bloodily fought at Battlefield." — Shropshire WeekendThe opening years of the fifteenth century saw one of the most bitterly contested political and military convulsions in the history of the British Isles, a conflict that is too-often overlooked by military historians. Henry IV, who ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Rifle Brigade

    Adventures in the Rifle Brigade & Random Shots From a Rifleman

    by John Kincaid ...
    To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain. His second volume, Random Shots From a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poland Betrayed

    The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939

    by David G. Williamson ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country's courageous fight against two unstoppable forces.Hitler's military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed around the world. But the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of the Berezina

    Napoleon's Great Escape

    by Alexander Mikaberidze ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    The full story of Napoleon's legendary escape from Russia under seemingly impossible odds is recounted in this thrillingly vivid military history.In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies. By late November, Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina—the last natural obstacle between his army and the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of North Cape

    The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    "The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . . stirring" ( Work Boat).On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Gas Attacks

    Ypres 1915

    by John Lee ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    A full-length study of Germany's use of poisonous gas in the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium in the First World War.The mist of poisonous gas that drifted across no man's land from the German trenches opposite the Ypres salient on twenty-two April 1915 caused ghastly casualties and suffering among the unprepared defenders, and it opened up a huge seven-mile gap in the defensive line. It also ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great

    by Paul Hill ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    "Remarkably comprehensive . . . a superb account of a man whose contribution to the political, legal and military legacy of England cannot be understated." — The Pegasus ArchiveIn the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Passchendaele

    The Hollow Victory

    by Martin Matrix Evans ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    A historical reexamination of the infamous World War I battle on the Western Front in Belgium.Passchendaele is one of the most evocative names associated with the Great War. For over eighty years, the battle has epitomized pointless slaughter on an unimaginable scale. The bare statistics are shocking in themselves—the British, French and German armies suffered over half a million casualties ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus