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  • A MATTER OF HONOUR
    JONATHON RILEY
    The monument to Isaac Brock (17691812) on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelsons column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. Brocks service during the War of 1812 includes leading the capture of Detroit. He was killed on the morning of 13 October 1812, leading a company of the 4...

    $169.00

  • 1813: EMPIRE AT BAY
    JONATHON RILEY
    A distinguished historian and British Army veteran examines the political and military alliances that led to the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.   1813 was a critical year in the war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon—the year in which the balance of power tipped decisively against the French monarch's First Empire. In 1813: Empire at Bay, military historian and ...

    $229.00

  • 'THAT ASTONISHING INFANTRY'
    MICHAEL GLOVER / JONATHON RILEY
    The Royal Welch Fusiliers were present at all Marlborough's great victories; they were one of the six Minden regiments; they fought throughout the Peninsula and were present at Wellington's final glorious victory at Waterloo. In The Great War their officers included the writer poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; their 22 battalions fought not just on the Western Front bu...

    $119.00

  • THE LIFE & CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL HUGHIE STOCKWELL
    JONATHON RILEY
    The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure of France from the NATO military structure and the huge loss of British nat...

    $229.00