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  • The Napoleonic Wars: 4 History Books

    Waterloo, Exile, and Eyewitness Memories of Europe's Age of Empire

    The Napoleonic Wars: 4 History Books gathers four distinct historical accounts of Europe's prolonged revolutionary and imperial conflict, ranging from military chronicle and campaign history to eyewitness-inflected memoir and reflective social observation. Its breadth is its principal strength: battlefield operations, the atmosphere surrounding Waterloo, and the human consequences of war emerge ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy’s Retreat

    A Forgotten Chapter of Waterloo

    A detailed military history examining an overlooked episode of the Napoleonic Wars. ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat

    So much has been written on the Waterloo Campaign that, even in the smallest details, nothing new can be revealed; but the dazzling magnitude of the great battle itself has obscured a part of the campaign which is seldom studied—the battle against Thielemann, and Grouchy’s skilful retreat from Wavre. ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat

    A study of an Obscure Part of the Waterloo Campaign

    In "The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat," William Hyde Kelly presents a meticulous examination of the military maneuvers surrounding the lesser-known but pivotal Battle of Wavre, fought in 1815 during the tumultuous aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. With a keen analytical eye, Kelly employs a clear and engaging narrative style that deftly interweaves historical facts with vivid descriptions ... Read more

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  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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  • A Boy In The Peninsular War – The Services, Adventures, And Experiences of Robert Blakeney, Subaltern in the 28th Regiment.

    Robert Blakeney was by modern standards a callow youth at the age of fifteen, in the standards of the time in which he lived he was a gentleman and a soldier. Blakeney was commissioned as a subaltern in the 28th Regiment, he was to see tough and trying service in the Peninsular under both Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington. Although the author eschews any literary pretensions, claiming that ... Read more

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  • The Campaigns of Napoleon

    In this “engrossing,” (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories—and to his ultimate downfall.Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex—an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and ... Read more

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  • Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

    From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat.Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more ... Read more

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  • The Story of Wellington

    "The Story of Wellington" by Harold Wheeler is a captivating exploration of the life and legacy of one of history's most renowned military leaders, the Duke of Wellington. The book delves into Wellington's early years, his rise through the ranks of the British Army, and his pivotal role in the Napoleonic Wars. Wheeler's narrative is rich with detail, providing insights into Wellington's strategic ... Read more

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  • Waterloo 1815: Battle Story

    Battle Story

    One of the most decisive battles in military history, Waterloo saw the culmination of a generation of war to bring a definitive end to French hegemony and imperial ambitions in Europe. Both sides fought bitterly and Wellington later remarked that 'it was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life'.In this bloody engagement, more than 20,000 men were lost on the battlefield that day by each ... Read more

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  • Marlborough's Wars

    Eyewitness Accounts, 1702–1713

    With extensive firsthand accounts, this volume presents a vivid chronicle of the Duke's decisive campaigns in the War of Spanish Succession.Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first hand. In ... Read more

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  • Marshal Ney - Bravest Of The Brave

    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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