THE WARS OF SPANISH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1809-29
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.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2013
NON-FICTIONDeeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.
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.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.
The Civil War: A Narrative
1958
NON-FICTIONFoote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.
Napoleon: A Biography
1997
NON-FICTIONSweeping biography of Napoleon drawing on psychology and politics as well as military history to present a fully rounded portrait.
The Peninsular War: A New History
2002
NON-FICTIONThe most comprehensive modern history of the war in Spain and Portugal, challenging received wisdom about guerrilla warfare and Wellington's role.
Grant
2017
NON-FICTIONDefinitive biography of Ulysses S. Grant, rehabilitating his reputation as both general and president through deep archival research.
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
2014
NON-FICTIONCornwell's narrative account of Waterloo — the 100 Hours campaign from Ligny and Quatre Bras to the final clash at Waterloo — drawing on eyewitness accounts from soldiers on all sides.
Austerlitz: The Story of a Battle
1896
NON-FICTIONThe classic French account of Napoleon's greatest victory, still considered one of the finest battle histories ever written for its operational clarity and narrative power.
The Peninsular War Atlas
2010
NON-FICTIONThe most comprehensive cartographic history of the Peninsular War, with over 150 detailed operational maps covering every major engagement from Rolica to Toulouse.
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage
2002
NON-FICTIONThe most detailed single-volume account of the Battle of Gettysburg, synthesizing decades of scholarship and integrating the experiences of common soldiers on both sides.
Antietam: The Bloodiest Day
1984
NON-FICTIONIllustrated account of the Battle of Antietam — the bloodiest single day in American military history — tracing the fighting from dawn to dusk on September 17, 1862.
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
1994
NON-FICTIONLooks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble
2010
NON-FICTIONPart of the ‘Making History Series’ – Waterloo is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
Waterloo
2005
NON-FICTIONThe author of "Napoleon & Wellington" takes a brilliant look at the conflict that ended Napoleon's reign and ushered in the modern world, with new evidence of just how the battle was lost.
Waterloo 1815
2000
NON-FICTIONWaterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. It was a close-run affair, matching two of the world's greatest generals - Napoleon and Wellington. This volume covers the entire cam...
“The” Napoleonic Wars
2001
NON-FICTION"While Napoleon prepared his army, on the coast of France, for an invasion of England that would never come, Russia and Austria prepared to move against his rear. Napoleon turned on the allies and cru...
Waterloo, the Hundred Days
1997
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