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  • The Boer War 1899–1902

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe.The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • The Indian Mutiny 1857–58

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power.The most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe, it was protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent exploded into open rebellion, Britain was obliged to field its largest army in forty years ... Leer más

    $10.59 USD

  • The Wars of the Barbary Pirates

    To the shores of Tripoli: the rise of the US Navy and Marines

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    An accessible introduction to the wars against the Barbary pirates, which shaped the early United States.It not only signaled the determination of the United States to throw off its tributary status, liberate its citizens from slavery in North Africa, and reassert its right to trade freely upon the seas: they enabled America to regain its sense of national dignity. The wars also served as a ... Leer más

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  • The Napoleonic Wars (3)

    The Peninsular War 1807–1814

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
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    Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war against British, Spanish and Portuguese forces ultimately led by one of history's greatest commanders -- the Duke of Wellington.Yet it also introduced a new dimension to warfare, for Napoleon's 'Spanish ulcer' became a bitter seven-year struggle against peoples inflamed by nationalism. Thus, while ... Leer más

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  • The Napoleonic Wars (4)

    The fall of the French empire 1813–1815

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    This fourth volume of the Napoleonic Wars miniseries covers Napoleon's gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when France prepared to face the vengeance of Russia and Prussia.Quickly raising new armies composed of inexperienced conscripts and invalided veterans, and with a critical shortage of cavalry, Napoleon resolved to preserve his empire in Germany, where he initially ... Leer más

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  • The French Revolutionary Wars

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    This concise, accessible guide details the events of the period, led by commanders whose names remain a by-word for excellence in leadership to this day: Napoleon and Nelson.Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France. Yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, ... Leer más

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  • The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839–1919

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    During the 19th and early 20th century, Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan. Each one saw the British trying and failing to gain control of a warlike and impenetrable territory.The first two wars (1839–42 and 1878–81) were wars of the Great Game; the British Empire's attempts to combat growing Russian influence near India's borders. The third, fought in 1919, was an Afghan ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • The Soviet–Afghan War 1979–89

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
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    The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict in that country.Soviet forces withdrew in 1988–89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands of the Mujahideen, the Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and other powers. As Gregory Fremont-Barnes outlines in this short introduction, the Soviet invasion had ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

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  • The Campaigns of Napoleon

    de David G. Chandler ...
    In this “engrossing,” (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories—and to his ultimate downfall.Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex—an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    de Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series Libro 1 - Command
    Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.Throughout the first decade of the 19th century he won battle after battle by wielding the Grande Armée decisively against the other powers of Europe – Prussia, Austria and Russia. Yet his fortunes changed in 1812 when ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Prussia and the Rise of the German Empire

    de George Malleson ...
    “THIS book deals especially with a period of German history of twenty-three years’ duration. Beginning with the French Revolution of 1848 it records the rousing in Germany of passions long pent-up, and, for the time, difficult to be controlled or directed; the manner in which these passions were eventually mastered; the great void and the fierce longing they left behind them; the use made by one ... Leer más

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  • Marshal Vauban

    Louis XIV's Engineer Genius

    de 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 ... Leer más

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