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  • Railway of Hell

    War, Captivity and Forced Labour at the Arms of the Japanese

    by Reginald Burton ...
    A first-hand account from a British POW, "not so much about the building of the Burma-Siam railway as it is about the existence of the men who built it" (BiblioBuffet.com).A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defense of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Campaigns in Italy — 1796-1797 and 1800

    by Lt.-Colonel Reginald G. Burton ...
    Series series Special Campaigns Series
    The immortal words "Not tonight Josephine!" are probably apocryphal, but in 1796 Napoleon had more pressing concerns than his amorous wife: he had been handed command of the Republican forces in Italy. His men were clothed in rags, unpaid, and hungry. Napoleon set to work with a passion, bending his senior commanders to his will (despite their seniority in both age and rank), raising morale and ... Read more

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  • From Boulogne to Austerlitz – Napoleon's Campaign of 1805

    by Lt.-Colonel Reginald G. Burton ...
    Series series Special Campaigns Series
    A short but very useful account of Napoleon's most brilliant campaign as Emperor, culminating in smashing the Third Coalition against France. Lt.-Col. Burton dispenses with the extraneous elements and focuses primarily on the actions of Napoleon as he guides his troops from Boulogne, where they have been training for an invasion of Britain, to face his Austrian and Russian foes across the Rhine ... Read more

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  • Napoleon in Russia

    by Lt.-Colonel Reginald G. Burton ...
    Series series Special Campaigns Series
    Napoleon's campaign in Russia began in June of 1812 and triggered the vast reversal of power away from France, which had started with his accession to power some twelve years before and would continue for decades afterwards. 600,000 men marched into Russia under Napoleon's eagles, only a fraction would march back out, most would be left frozen in the wastes of Russia.Lt.-Col Burton undertakes the ... Read more

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  • A Detailed Account Of The Battle Of Austerlitz

    by Major-General Karl von Stutterheim ...
    Translated by Major John Pine-Coffin ...
    A first-hand account by one of the participants in the epoch shaping battle of Austerlitz, in December 1805. Accounted by many to be Napoleon's finest victory, this account is alleged to contain his own commentaries in the text by Major-General von Stutterheim. Von Stutterheim's text is balanced and free from bias despite being written by a serving member of the Austrian military. Added to the ... Read more

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  • Marshal Ney - Bravest Of The Brave

    by Andrew Hilliard Atteridge ...
    Few of Napoleon's Marshals have been involved in such controversy as the son of a cooper from Sarrelouis, Michel Ney. His reputation has been argued over fiercely by military historians, Bonapartists, revisionists and romantics for almost two centuries since his untimely demise at the hands of his own countrymen in the gardens of the Luxembourg.This volume paints a sympathetic picture of Marshal ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia – 1806

    by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E ...
    At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great's legacy of Rossbach and Leuthen, their sullen neutrality during 1805 had been bought by the price of the annexation ... Read more

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  • England in the Seven Years War – Vol. I

    A Study in Combined Strategy

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. ...
    Series series England in the Seven Years War
    The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was one of the truly world-wide conflicts following the expansion of European colonies, with engagements spanning from India to Canada. As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between England and France, and the newly emergent Prussia and Austria, led to a conflict that dragged many ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany

    by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E ...
    Having escaped the disaster of the Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon set out to defeat a coalition of epic proportions, who had coalesced to change the French preponderance of power on the Continent. Leaving his stepson Eugène with the shattered remnants of the Grande Armée in northern Germany, Napoleon's great organisation skills would be used to the full to replace his depleted ranks.Short of ... Read more

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  • The Imperial Guard of Napoleon - from Marengo to Waterloo

    by Joel Tyler Headley ...
    J. T. Headley was born at the very end of the convulsive period of the French revolution and Napoleonic Wars that followed, and wrote a number of volumes on the French army and its leadership of the period. This volume is a short and pithy, none the less entertaining, account of the structure, growth and battles of the famed Garde Impériale of Napoleon.Starting with the formation of the Guard from ... Read more

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  • Napoleon at Bay – 1814

    by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E ...
    Following on from the Author's "Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany", Petre's closely researched and well argued account of the 1814 campaign, which would see some of the finest strategical manoeuvres of Napoleon's entire career.As the wreck of the last Grande Armée created in 1813, retreated home from Germany to France it was a pale shadow of its former glory. Marched into the ground as Napoleon ... Read more

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  • Panzers at War 1939-1942

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    "Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." General Erwin Rommel A fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military tacticians of last century. Illustrated throughout with full coverage of all the tank battles and campaigns in the Second World from the Polish Blitzkrieg to Rommel's final defeat in the African desert ... Read more

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