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  • THE NAPOLEONIC ‘DAD’S ARMY’
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    THE NAPOLEONIC ‘DAD’S ARMY’
    PAUL L DAWSON
    During the crisis year of 1792 when war against France was at its closest, a variety of societies and associations of ‘Loyal Britons’ were set up throughout Britain. Their aim was to organise patriotic, anti-French forces in defense of king and country, and to help maintain the established order. The need to provide an internal defense force resulted in the Volunteer Act of 179...

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  • NAPOLEON’S HEAVY CAVALRY
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    NAPOLEON’S HEAVY CAVALRY
    PAUL L DAWSON
    Created during the Peace of Amiens, the nineteen regiments of cuirassiers that existed during the course of the 1e Empire were, after the Imperial Guard, perhaps the most famous and recognisable soldiers of the epoch. This book explores the long gestation of clothing and equipping the cuirassiers, the development of the arm from twelve regiments to twenty-one – if we include th...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NARRATIVE THEORY
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NARRATIVE THEORY
    DAWSON, PAUL
    The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This v...

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  • SPORTS ECONOMICS
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    SPORTS ECONOMICS
    PAUL DOWNWARD / ALISTAIR DAWSON / TRUDO DEJONGHE
    Sports Economics is the ideal introduction for all sport management and sport policy students and those for whom economics is a relatively new area of study. The book will also provide an ideal introduction to sports economics for economics students new to the area. Specifically designed to make economics accessible the context of sport is the focus of analysis, ensuring that t...

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  • CREATIVE WRITING AND THE NEW HUMANITIES
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    CREATIVE WRITING AND THE NEW HUMANITIES
    PAUL DAWSON
    This book examines the institutional history and disciplinary future of creative writing in the contemporary academy, looking well beyond the perennial questions 'can writing be taught?' and 'should writing be taught?'. Paul Dawson traces the emergence of creative writing alongside the new criticism in American universities; examines the writing workshop in relation to theories...

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  • THE ECONOMICS OF PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORTS
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    THE ECONOMICS OF PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORTS
    PAUL DOWNWARD / ALISTAIR DAWSON
    This book is unique in that it offers the first truly rigorous application of economic principles to its subject. The authors analyse:* the economic literature on sporting leagues* the demand for professional team sports* the players' labour market.Amongst the topics discussed are the US system of franchising and draft picks and the chances of thei ...

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  • WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
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    WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the material he examined had never been accessed by researchers or historians before, the files involved having been sealed in 1816. These seals remained unbroken until Paul was given permission to break them to read the contents.Forge...

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  • BATTLE FOR PARIS 1815
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    BATTLE FOR PARIS 1815
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    “For anyone seeking a full understanding of the end of the Napoleonic era this book is a must read . . . [a] tour de force of research.” —Clash of Steel   On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defense of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did ...

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  • NAPOLEON AND GROUCHY
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    NAPOLEON AND GROUCHY
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retr...

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  • MARSHAL NEY AT QUATRE BRAS
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    MARSHAL NEY AT QUATRE BRAS
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    Fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Quatre Bras has been described as a tactical Anglo-allied victory, but a French strategic victory. The French Marshal Ney was given command of the left wing of Napoleons army and ordered to seize the vital crossroads at Quatre Bras, as the prelude to an advance on Brussels. The crossroads was of strat...

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  • BATTLE FOR PARIS 1815
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    BATTLE FOR PARIS 1815
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    “For anyone seeking a full understanding of the end of the Napoleonic era this book is a must read . . . [a] tour de force of research.” —Clash of Steel   On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defense of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did ...

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  • NAPOLEON'S PENINSULAR WAR
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    NAPOLEON'S PENINSULAR WAR
    PAUL L DAWSON
    A renowned historian captures the French experience of the Peninsular War through soldiers’ unpublished memoirs and eyewitness accounts. While much has been written about the British campaigns of the Peninsular War, surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French. Now, using previously unseen material from the French army archives in Paris, Paul...

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  • THE BATTLE AGAINST THE LUDDITES
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    THE BATTLE AGAINST THE LUDDITES
    PAUL L DAWSON
    As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy. This was not the first time the Greys had drawn their swords during the Napoleonic Wars – but it was their first against Napoleon’s troops. Three years earlier they had attacked workers...

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  • FRENCH INVASIONS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1797–1798
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    FRENCH INVASIONS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1797–1798
    PAUL L DAWSON
    Not since 1066 – at least in popular myth – has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and like-minded radicals in England. The scene was set for the most dangerous period in British history since William the Conquer...

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  • FIGHTING NAPOLEON AT HOME
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    FIGHTING NAPOLEON AT HOME
    PAUL L DAWSON
    From the sun-baked sierras of Spain, through the stormy waters off Cape Trafalgar to the muddy and bloody fields of Waterloo, Britain’s soldiers and sailors were notching up victories which set the country on the path to becoming the greatest power on the planet. We like to imagine the country was unified against a common enemy, France, and the Tyrant of Europe – Napoleon. Yet ...

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  • WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
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    WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the material he examined had never been accessed by researchers or historians before, the files involved having been sealed in 1816. These seals remained unbroken until Paul was given permission to break them to read the contents.Forge...

    $329.00

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  • NAPOLEON AND GROUCHY
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    NAPOLEON AND GROUCHY
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retr...

    $329.00

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  • MARSHAL NEY AT QUATRE BRAS
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    MARSHAL NEY AT QUATRE BRAS
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    Fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Quatre Bras has been described as a tactical Anglo-allied victory, but a French strategic victory. The French Marshal Ney was given command of the left wing of Napoleons army and ordered to seize the vital crossroads at Quatre Bras, as the prelude to an advance on Brussels. The crossroads was of strat...

    $329.00

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