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The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
2006
NON-FICTIONThis comprehensive three-volume work on the French Revolution and Napoleon's rule and campaigns covers a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural events and personalities during a time ...
An Advanced History of Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Edward VII
1912
NON-FICTIONThe Battle 100
2005
NON-FICTIONOffers a historical retrospective on the most important battles of the past three thousand years, describing in detail one hundred key military campaigns, with commentary on the outcome of the conflic...
French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786-1861
2015
NON-FICTIONIn 1786 the French navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, and the reputation of its ship design and fighting skills never stood higher. Though the effects of the...
European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802
2015
NON-FICTIONUpon France’s defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, “From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the...
European Jewry and the First Crusade
1987
NON-FICTIONAnalyzes the causes of the anti-Jewish violence of the First Crusade. The spiritual revival and rapid growth of the 10th-11th centuries led both to Church reform and the Crusades, an attempt to direct...
Empire in Black and Gold: Shadows of the Apt 1
2021
NON-FICTIONThe city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace and prosperity for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization and sophistication. That peace is about to end. Far from the Lowlands, an ancient emp...
Blitzkrieg: Book 1 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
2018
NON-FICTIONPart of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful an...
Sharpe's Trafalgar
2009
FICTION"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes r...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
2014
NON-FICTIONCornwell brings the chaos and drama of Waterloo to life in vivid narrative history.
Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition
2005
NON-FICTIONDetailed military history of Napoleon's greatest victory.
Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
The Peloponnesian War
2003
NON-FICTIONKagan's single-volume masterpiece covering the entire war between Athens and Sparta.
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
2005
NON-FICTIONHolland's gripping narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece, from Marathon to Salamis, and how a tiny Greek coalition stopped the mightiest empire on earth.
The Campaigns of Napoleon
1966
REFERENCEThe most comprehensive study of Napoleon's military campaigns ever written. An indispensable reference for understanding Napoleonic warfare.
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
2004
NON-FICTIONZamoyski's devastating account of the Grande Armée's catastrophic Russian campaign, told through the voices of soldiers on both sides.
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
1904
MILITARY HISTORYA witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism...
War and Peace
1864
MILITARY HISTORYWar and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocra...