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  • A SCOT AT WAR WITH WELLINGTON
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    A SCOT AT WAR WITH WELLINGTON
    GARETH GLOVER
    Captain James Stirling’s journals offer a firsthand account of the 42nd Regiment’s actions during the Peninsular War. For such a famous regiment as the 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch), the number of published memoirs is surprisingly low. The discovery of the three hand-written journals in the collection of the National Library of Scotland covering the period from August...

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  • AT WAR WITH WELLINGTON
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    AT WAR WITH WELLINGTON
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    A unique and unfiltered perspective on the Napier brothers' firsthand experiences during the Peninsular War, revealed through their private letters. The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War. Charles served in the 50th and 102nd Foot, George in the 52nd and 71st Foot and William (the famous historian of the Peninsular War) who served with th...

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  • THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington's army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle and the last to withdraw, the men of the Light Division were trained to act independently and think for themselves as well as operating in their battalion formations. The regiments which comprised the Light Division were present at al...

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  • THE MEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION
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    THE MEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    Some of the most famous memoirs of Britain's long war against Napoleon have come from the pens of members of Wellington's Light Division, but many wonderful accounts were never published and have sat in archives, libraries, museums, and private collections, forgotten for 200 years. The regiments of the Light Division, and its predecessor, the Light Brigade, were involved in alm...

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  • THE MEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION
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    THE MEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    Some of the most famous memoirs of Britain's long war against Napoleon have come from the pens of members of Wellington's Light Division, but many wonderful accounts were never published and have sat in archives, libraries, museums, and private collections, forgotten for 200 years. The regiments of the Light Division, and its predecessor, the Light Brigade, were involved in alm...

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  • THE AMERICAN SHARPE
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    THE AMERICAN SHARPE
    GARETH GLOVER
    Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but he was sent back to the ‘Old Country’ for his educa...

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  • AN ELOQUENT SOLDIER
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    AN ELOQUENT SOLDIER
    GARETH GLOVER
    Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published.Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time, which practically guarantees the authenticity and accuracy of his account. But what mak...

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  • FROM CORUNNA TO WATERLOO
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    FROM CORUNNA TO WATERLOO
    GARETH GLOVER
    The book is a thoroughly researched and engaging history of the 15th Hussars throughout the wars, crammed full of interesting asides regarding the life and loves of a cavalryman in the Napoleonic age. As you read this book, you will learn to care passionately for these gregarious young men, partake in their exertions, share their joy, but also feel their pain when one of them f...

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  • THE GREAT WATERLOO CONTROVERSY
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    THE GREAT WATERLOO CONTROVERSY
    GARETH GLOVER
    This groundbreaking historical study resolves a hotly debated conundrum with a newly uncovered firsthand account of the Battle of Waterloo. As the battle reached its momentous climax, Napoleon's Imperial Guard marched towards the Duke of Wellington's thinning red line. Having never before tasted defeat, it was now sent reeling back in disorder. The British 1st Foot Guards were ...

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  • NAPOLEON IN 100 OBJECTS
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    NAPOLEON IN 100 OBJECTS
    GARETH GLOVER
    "Takes a look at the life of Napoleon Bonaparte through using 100 objects . . . an entertaining method of presenting a biography." — Battles and Book Reviews For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under his control stretched from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and encompassed most of Wes...

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  • LETTERS FROM THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
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    LETTERS FROM THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
    GARETH GLOVER
    Waterloo is probably the most famous battle in military history. Thousands of books have been written on the subject but mysteries remain and controversy abounds.By presenting more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, this collection goes right back to the primary source material. In the letters the Allied officers recount where ...

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  • THE TWO BATTLES OF COPENHAGEN, 1801 AND 1807
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    THE TWO BATTLES OF COPENHAGEN, 1801 AND 1807
    GARETH GLOVER
    This military study sheds new light on the significance of Copenhagen in the Napoleonic Wars through primary source accounts of two major battles. In 1801 and 1807, British forces clashed with Napoleon and his allies in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. Yet the significance of those battles, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been...

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  • A SCOTS GREY AT WATERLOO
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    A SCOTS GREY AT WATERLOO
    GARETH GLOVER
    William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803. Clarke had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time the regiment was ordered to Belgium on the news that Napoleon had escaped from Elba. Forming part of what became known as the Union Brigade, the Scots Greys played a key role in Napoleons defeat at Waterloo.The John...

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  • THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON
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    THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON
    GARETH GLOVER
    "A comprehensive look at the Mediterranean and adjacent territories, a largely 'forgotten' theatre of the very long Anglo-French war." — New York Military Affairs Symposium   The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian Peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of ...

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  • FIGHTING NAPOLEON
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    FIGHTING NAPOLEON
    GARETH GLOVER
    "These lively and entertaining memoirs provide an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington's better-known operations in the Iberian Peninsula" (Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series).   It is often forgotten that Britain's struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and the extensive operations of the Royal Navy and the British Army in the Mediterranean wer...

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  • EYEWITNESS TO THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
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    EYEWITNESS TO THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
    GARETH GLOVER
    The journals of the Honourable James Stanhope are among the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and yet they have never been published before. The long fight against the French in Portugal and Spain, the campaign in Holland, then the Battle of Waterloo James Stanhope lived through all these extraordinary events and recorded them...

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  • A FAMILY’S TRAGIC BATTLE WITH NAPOLEON
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    A FAMILY’S TRAGIC BATTLE WITH NAPOLEON
    GARETH GLOVER
    Captain John Grant Fraser of the Royal Artillery had succeeded to the titles of Ballindoun and Kinneries via the unexpected death of his elder brother James Fraser on 1 May 1791. John Grant died in 1798 and the title passed to his eldest son Baillie Fraser, their uncle Hugh acting as guardian until his coming of age. James Baillie Fraser joined the Army and rose to the rank of ...

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  • FEEDING WELLINGTON'S ARMY FROM BURGOS TO WATERLOO
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    FEEDING WELLINGTON'S ARMY FROM BURGOS TO WATERLOO
    GARETH GLOVER
    Transcribed from Tupper Carey's journals, vividly details his experiences and observations as a Commissary General during the Peninsular War, Waterloo campaign, and post-war occupation in France. Transcribed for the first time from Commissary General Tupper Carey's handwritten journals, this is the second of two volumes which cover the lively career of a Commissary who served t...

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  • FEEDING WELLINGTON'S ARMY IN THE PENINSULA
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    FEEDING WELLINGTON'S ARMY IN THE PENINSULA
    GARETH GLOVER
    Transcribed for the first time from Commissary General Tupper Carey's handwritten journals, this is the first of two volumes which cover the lively career of a Commissary who served throughout the Peninsular war and Waterloo campaign. Written with vivid detail, these journals offer a truly unique window into the life of a Commissary and the campaigns in which he served. Althoug...

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  • RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    No other regiment in Wellington's Peninsular army can compare with the 95th Rifles. Even before Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels and television series, the Rifles were the most famous of all the British Army's fighting formations. Unlike the red-coated regiments of the Line, the Riflemen were trained to act with a degree of independence, selecting their own targets in battle. A...

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  • THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON'S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington's army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle and the last to withdraw, the men of the Light Division were trained to act independently and think for themselves as well as operating in their battalion formations. The regiments which comprised the Light Division were present at al...

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  • MARCHING, FIGHTING, DYING
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    MARCHING, FIGHTING, DYING
    GARETH GLOVER
    Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign against the French. The vivid excerpts, which are set in their historical context by the author's expert commentary, are largel...

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  • THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON
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    THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON
    GARETH GLOVER
    "A comprehensive look at the Mediterranean and adjacent territories, a largely 'forgotten' theatre of the very long Anglo-French war." — New York Military Affairs Symposium   The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian Peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of ...

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  • WATERLOO: THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON'S IMPERIAL GUARD
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    WATERLOO: THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON'S IMPERIAL GUARD
    GARETH GLOVER
    "This in-depth study of the nuts and bolts of a single division is without a doubt the best book I have ever read on Waterloo."— The Napoleon Series   Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal   This is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published. It is based on the papers of its commander Sir Henry Clinton, and it reveal...

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  • WATERLOO: MYTH AND REALITY
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    WATERLOO: MYTH AND REALITY
    GARETH GLOVER
    "A radical re-assessment . . . This is fascinating stuff . . . a most useful addition to the Waterloo—and indeed Napoleonic—bookshelf."—Military Modelling Magazine   More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal co...

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  • WATERLOO: MYTH AND REALITY
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    WATERLOO: MYTH AND REALITY
    GARETH GLOVER
    "A radical re-assessment . . . This is fascinating stuff . . . a most useful addition to the Waterloo—and indeed Napoleonic—bookshelf."—Military Modelling Magazine   More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal co...

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  • THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME V: GERMAN SOURCES
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    THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME V: GERMAN SOURCES
    GARETH GLOVER
    The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts. The human aspect of war comes to the fore, the humor and exhilaration; the fears and miseries; the starvation and exhaustion; the horror and the joy.It is usually accepted that very few common soldiers of this period coul...

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  • THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME IV: BRITISH SOURCES
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    THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME IV: BRITISH SOURCES
    GARETH GLOVER
    In the first groundbreaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The range and unique nature of much of the research will intrigue and fascinate enthusiasts and historians alike.The wealth of hitherto unseen British material contained in Volume I includes: a series ...

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  • THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME II: GERMAN SOURCES
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    THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME II: GERMAN SOURCES
    GLOVER, GARETH
    Histories of the Waterloo campaign and tours of the battlefield generally concentrate on the battle between the armies of Napoleon and Wellington - the role of Blucher's Prussians is left in the background. Peter Hofscher's fascinating account focuses on the Prussians at the Battle of Waterloo and on their critical but often neglected contribution to the battle. He tells the st...

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  • THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME I: BRITISH SOURCES
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    THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME I: BRITISH SOURCES
    GARETH GLOVER
    Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavali Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo. As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his eye-witness account of the events that lead to Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815. This is the contemporary view of how the events were conveyed to the public of Great Britain. Featuring original engr...

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