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  • Britain Against Napoleon

    The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815

    by Roger Knight ...
    From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat.For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • How to Land a Top-Paying Forestry laborers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Knight Roger ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Forestry laborers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kin, Kilts and Kolonie

    Scottish Sojourners in the Dutch Empire in Asia

    by G. Roger Knight ...
    A historical study of the Scots who travelled to the Dutch East Indies to make their fortune.Scotland's diaspora, reframed through the Dutch East Indies: the intertwined lives of Highland lairds, Islay farmers and metropolitan merchants who built fortunes, and families, on the island of Java.A vivid group portrait of Scots who embedded themselves in the Dutch colonial world. Centering on the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Convoys

    The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America

    by Roger Knight ...
    The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victoryDuring the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships. These were wars of attrition and raw materials had to reach their shores continuously: timber and hemp from the Baltic, sulfur from ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • William IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    A King at Sea

    by Roger Knight ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but he was overpromoted at an early age and saw his years of active service marked by a series of calamities. He was also notorious for his mounting debts and his long relationship with the actress Mrs Jordan, with whom he ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • The Citizen Rising

    by Roger Knight ...
    While growing up within a loving African American family, a little boy develops a deep understanding of right and wrong and the responsibility that accompanies his choices. Some forty years later, Rohillio Jabel recognizes that it is only through Gods grace and mercy that he has been successful in life. Buoyed by his ideals, innovative ideas, and commitment to helping those less fortunate than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sugarlandia Revisited

    Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

    Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Juan A. Giusti-Cordero, G. Roger Knight ...
    Series Book 9 - International Studies in Social History
    Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always ... Read more

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  • Charles II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Star King

    by Clare Jackson ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulersCharles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his own many years of exile made him a ... Read more

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  • Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Reign of Anarchy

    by Carl Watkins ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself.With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the ... Read more

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  • Henry III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Simple and God-Fearing King

    by Stephen Church ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time England was transformed from being the private play-thing of a French speaking dynasty into a medieval state in which the king answered for his actions to an English parliament, which emerged during Henry's lifetime.Despite Henry's central ... Read more

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  • In Nelson's Wake

    The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

    by James Davey ...
    Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An "impressive" account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat ( International Journal of Military History).Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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