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GREAT COMMANDERS eBook Series

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  • Marlborough

    The Hero of Blenheim

    by John Hussey ...
    Series series GREAT COMMANDERS
    John Churchill was born in 1650, the son of a defeated Cavalier captain, in a household which had been ravaged and rendered almost destitute by the English Civil War. Yet by the time of his death in 1722 he was among the richest men in the country, with a dukedom, a palace and a principality to call his own.His rise to power came through a combination of good luck, astute political manoeuvring, ... Read more

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  • The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714

    by James Falkner ...
    How the death of a childless monarch sparked a bloody conflict that raged across Europe and beyond.The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas, and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and little understood. James ... Read more

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  • Invasion

    From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were drawn up by the French in 1692, 1708, 1743, 1756, 1759, 1796 and 1801, and by the French together ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Crowns in a Changing World

    The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

    by John Kiste ...
    At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, almost every European nation was a monarchy, most linked by close family ties to her and Edward VII, the "uncle of Europe". Prior to the outbreak of World War I, the personal relationships of Edward, and of his successor and son, George V, flourished with the other royal families of Europe. The closeness of the European families was violently interrupted by ... 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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  • Queen Victoria and the European Empires

    by John Van der Kiste ...
    This latest book from John Van der Kiste, the eminent historian of European royalty, is an account of Queen Victoria’s personal and political relationships with the empires, or to be more exact, the Kings and Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families of France, Germany, Austria and Russia. Victoria had close connections with the royal houses of Germany long before the King of Prussia became ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Marshal Vauban

    Louis XIV's Engineer Genius

    by James Falkner ...
    "[A] vivid and well written account of the life of the man who built some of the most magnificent military structures known to man."—Clayton Donnell, "Fortress Archaeologist"Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defense and attack of fortified places, and his ... Read more

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  • Crimea

    The Great Crimean War, 1854–1856

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The definitive history of the Crimean War from world-renowned historian Trevor Royle.The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wellington Against Massena

    The Third Invasion of Portugal, 1810–1811

    by David Buttery ...
    Wellington's clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable generals carried on a campaign of maneuver, battle and attrition across Spain and Portugal in 1810 and 1811 which had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. Wellington's reputation was enhanced, Massena's was ruined.David Buttery's close analysis of this ... Read more

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  • Wellington Against Junot

    The First Invasion of Portugal, 1807–1808

    by David Buttery ...
    The first French invasion of Portugal in 1807 - which was commanded by Junot, one of Napoleon's most experienced generals - was a key event in the long, brutal Peninsular War. It was the first campaign fought in the Peninsular by Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, yet it tends to be overshadowed by more famous episodes in the six-year conflict that followed.David Buttery, in this ... Read more

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  • Irish Brigades Abroad

    From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic Wars

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Irish Brigades Abroad examines the complete history of the Irish regiments in France, Spain, Austria and beyond. Covering the period from King James II's reign of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685, until the disbandment of the Irish Brigades in France and Spain, this book looks at the origins, formation, recruitment and the exploits of the Irish regiments, including their ... Read more

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