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  • Cawnpore & Lucknow

    A Tale of Two Sieges- Indian Mutiny

    by D. S. Richards ...
    A history of two 1857 sieges in which Indians violently revolted against British colonials, featuring accounts from people who lived through them.Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter, a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflict in the Crimea

    British Redcoats on Russian Soil

    by D. S. Richards ...
    The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men—and women—who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and woefully inadequate administrative support. As revealed to a shocked nation by the first war reporters, ... Read more

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  • The Peninsula Years

    Britain's Red Coats in Spain & Portugal

    by D. S. Richards ...
    The Peninsular Campaign was conducted over terrain ranging from the sun scorched plains of Andalusia to the picturesque snow covered passes of the Pyrenees. Drawing on the experiences and observations of fifty-six officers and men who fought during the years 1808 to 1814, The Peninsula Years is a thrilling and fast moving narrative of the bloody campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as ... Read more

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  • The Annals of the Saljuq Turks

    Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir

    by D.S. Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    Ibn al-Athir, who died in the 13th century, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one of the greatest achievements of Muslim historiography for the range and comprehensiveness of the sources it assembled and for its narrative, covering the whole sweep of Islamic history up to his own lifetime. This volume of D.S. Richards' translation ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk Period

    An Extract from Ibn Fa?l Allah Al-�Umari's Masalik Al-Ab?ar Fi Mamalik Al-Am?ar

    by D.S. Richards ...
    Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umarī’s Masālik al-absār, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.D. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights into its society and the organization and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Waterloo

    The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

    by Bernard Cornwell ...
    #1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand.On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Give Them a Volley and Charge!

    The Battle of Inkermann 1854

    by Patrick Mercer ...
    The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them.This book describes the Battle of Inkermann - an engagement which lasted for less than twelve hours, but was one of the bloodiest single engagements in Europe between 1815 and ... Read more

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  • London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria (Mobi Classics)

    by Sir Winston S. Churchill ...
    London to Ladysmith via Pretoria is a book written by Winston Churchill. It is a personal record of Churchill's impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. It includes an account of the Relief of Ladysmith, and also the story of Churchill's capture and dramatic escape from the Boers. The book was first published in 1900, and dedicated to the staff of the Natal Government ... Read more

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  • A Waterloo Hero

    The Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau

    by Friedrich Lindau ...
    "A rare example of a memoir of a private soldier from the Napoleonic Wars . . . valuable insight into the daily life and preoccupations of Wellington's men" (HistoryOfWar.org).By all accounts, Friedrich Lindau was a remarkable soldier of the King's German Legion. He served with distinction under Wellington from Lisbon to as far as Bayonne, and was involved in all major engagements, including ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Army 1809-1814 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE ...
    Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War.Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that was to become Wellington's Army. Into Wellington's Army he gathered, as he says in his Preface, "much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various ... Read more

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  • The Boer War

    by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War.Christopher Wilkinson-Latham explores the composition and appearance of both sides, and summarises the campaigns fought. Alongside concise text, this guide is richly illustrated, and uniforms are shown in full detail. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Marching with Wellington

    With the Inniskillings in the Napoleonic Wars

    by Martin Cassidy ...
    Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there. ... Read more

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