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  • Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished in the Peninsular War. Vol. II

    by John William Cole ...
    Series series Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished in the Peninsular War
    Although biographies of Duke of Wellington abound, there few biographies of the generals that fought alongside him and executed his orders (or in some cases disobeyed them). The author John William Cole was well placed to provide the details of their lives being a long serving soldier in the British Army; his portraits are full of descriptive detail, without being too biased, he discusses the ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished During The Peninsular War. Vol I.

    by John William Cole ...
    Series series Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished During The Peninsular War.
    Although biographies of Duke of Wellington abound, there few biographies of the generals that fought alongside him and executed his orders (or in some cases disobeyed them). The author John William Cole was well placed to provide the details of their lives being a long serving soldier in the British Army; his biographical sketches of the generals are accurate, pithy and although tactful he does ... Read more

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  • British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1806

    Edited by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series Book 1 - Despatches from the Front
    The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are those original despatches from some forty generals, captains and admirals detailing more than ... Read more

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  • Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1934

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 2 - Marlborough: His Life and Times
    The second volume in the Nobel Prize winner's biography of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough: "The greatest historical work written in our century" (Leo Strauss).After the defeat of the Conservative government in the 1929 general election, Winston S. Churchill entered a period of political exile; a time he referred to as "the wilderness years." It was during this time that Churchill began ... Read more

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  • Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1936

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 3 - Marlborough: His Life and Times
    The third volume of the Nobel Prize winner's hailed biography of John Churchill covers his military leadership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, was an accomplished military leader who never lost a battle. This is the third volume in Winston S. Churchill's sweeping, four-part biography of his illustrious ancestor, in which he recounts ... Read more

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  • With "The Thirty-Second" In The Peninsular And Other Campaigns

    by Major Harry Ross-Lewin ...
    Although the 32nd Regiment was primarily recruited in and around Cornwall, leading to many scraps with the Navy for manpower, in its ranks during the Napoleonic wars the two Irish brothers of the Ross-Lewin family fought, the elder brother Harry left an exciting and vibrant account of his campaigning.His adventures took him from the West Indies, engagements with rebel Irishmen, Copenhagen, even ... Read more

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  • A Boy in the Peninsular War

    by Robert Blakeney ...
    Through Jim’s eyes, readers gain insight into the hardships faced by soldiers and the people affected by the conflict. Blakeney's narrative captures the bravery, camaraderie, and resilience of those involved in the war, as well as the challenges of survival amidst chaos. The author weaves historical details into the storyline, providing a rich backdrop of the Peninsular campaign, including battles ... Read more

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  • British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars, 1807–1815

    Edited by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series Book 2 - Despatches from the Front
    The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are those original despatches from some forty generals, captains and admirals detailing more than ... 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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  • A History of the British Army – Vol. I (1066-1713)

    by Sir John William Fortescue ...
    Series series A History of the British Army
    Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so with ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography Of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G.C.B.

    Edited with the addition of some supplementary Chapters by G. C. Moore Smith M.A.

    by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry [Henry] George Wakelyn Smith G.C.B. Bart. ...
    The autobiography of Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal, is as exciting, varied and adventurous as the epic life that he led. He joined the British army in the 1st battalion of the 95th Rifles, whose dark green uniform he was proud to wear and despite an inauspicious posting along with the disastrous expedition to Montevideo in 1807 his talents began to emerge. These talents were to be brought ... Read more

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  • The Story of Wellington

    by Harold Wheeler ...
    Gathering clouds, dark and ominous, obscured the political horizon in the year 1769. The habitués of London coffee-houses discussed one of three things—“The Letters of Junius,” the most remarkable series of political exposures ever penned; the election of the notorious John Wilkes for Middlesex; and the rebellious conduct of the North American colonists. On the other side of the Channel the Duc de ... Read more

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