Volume 3 of the 6 volume history of the Peninsular War
Fortescue is rightly renowned for his multi-volume magnum opus, ‘The History of the British Army’, ...
A classic of the ancient world of warfare
De Re Militari (Concerning Military Affairs), written in the 5th century by Vegetius and translated from the original Latin, is a treatise on warf...
FROM VICTORY TO DEFEAT IN AMERICA
This is an account of a young Subaltern of the British Army in Southern France
at the time of Napoleon's abdication, who fifi nds himself celebrating the end
of ho...
At war for the Emperor with the horsemen of the CuirassiersAmong students of the Napoleonic Wars there has long been an enthusiasm for the memoirs of soldiers of Na...
The essential element of the Roman armyWhile the legions of the Roman Imperial Army became both legendary and emblematic of the power of ancient Rome throughout its empire, it was inevitabl...
The war of the French volunteersThis book does not concern the Battle of Verdun in 1916--widely considered to be the largest battle in world history, rather it positions the action geograph...
The life of a remarkable Italian womanChristina Belgiojoso-Trivulzio was an Italian noblewoman of the 19th century. She was a free thinking, independent woman determined ...
An expert examination of the first campaigns of a military geniusGustav Fiebeger has approached his analysis of General Bonaparte's campaign of 1796-7 in Italy against Austrian and Sardinia...
The warrior knights of the cross
The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially endorsed by the church in the early decades of...
Rare insights into the chivalric age through the eyewitness accounts of two French knightsChronicle of the Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey de Villehardou...
Volume 2 of the 6 volume history of the Peninsular War
Fortescue is rightly renowned for his multi-volume magnum opus, ‘The History of the British Army’, ...
An Indian leader’s struggle against the tide of westward pioneer expansionBlack Hawk was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Indian tribe born in the Illinois Territor...
The Victories of the Armies of Revolutionary France in ItalyLess than three years after Major Bonaparte of the artillery of the army of the Republic had effected the fall of Toulon and, in ...
Grouchy and the fall of an empire
The phrase, 'he met his Waterloo' has entered the English language and almost everyone knows it means that someone, probably powerful, has fallen; context...
Recollections of Napoleon's French Mameluke
Napoleon Bonaparte's adventure in the Middle East brought him in close contact with the Mamelukes-the dominant military caste of Egypt at the cl...
A little covered Napoleonic campaignThe Walcheren Expedition often appears in military memoirs of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, though rarely in much detail. The impression t...
Forty-four battles of the Napoleonic era in words and picturesNapoleon was one of the most significant figures in world history; a military and administrative genius, statesman and despot, ...
The first 15 years of the famous green sharp-shootersThere has been much revived interest in recent years in the activities of Wellington's elite green clad riflemen-the famous 95th.In Will...
The colourful career of a member of Napoleon's staffThis is the autobiography of the man who became Count Philippe de Segur, general of Division, Peer of France. Born in 1780, Segur was a c...
An amazing account of the survival of an American lady among hostile IndiansThis is a remarkable story of one woman's ordeal and a testament of extraordinary feminine endurance. Mrs Kelly w...