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  • THE BRITISH ARMY, 1783–1815
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    THE BRITISH ARMY, 1783–1815
    KEVIN LINCH
    The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this carefully considered new study by Kevin Linch ...

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  • WITH THE BRITISH CAVALRY IN 1914
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    WITH THE BRITISH CAVALRY IN 1914
    MATTHEW RICHARDSON
    The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German counterparts on the battlefields of Fran...

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  • THE BRITISH ARMY OF GEORGE II, 1727-1760
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    THE BRITISH ARMY OF GEORGE II, 1727-1760
    GABRIELE ESPOSITO
    Gabriele Esposito provides a detailed overview of the history, organization and uniforms of the British military forces during the long reign of George II (1727-1760). Perhaps best known for the Jacobite Rebellion, this period saw the British military forces greatly expanded and involved in two major international conflicts: the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Year...

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  • THE BATTLE OF THAPSUS (46 BC)
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    THE BATTLE OF THAPSUS (46 BC)
    GARETH C SAMPSON
    Despite defeating his opponent Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus, and the latter’s subsequent murder, Caesar still faced a determined opposition in the Civil War that had engulfed the late Roman Republic. Having become entangled in the intrigues and wars of the East, Caesar gave his opponents time to regroup under the lead of Metellus Scipio and Cato the Younger, scions of two of th...

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  • VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE WESTERN FRONT – BATTLES OF THE HINDENBURG LINE - ST QUENTIN, BEAUREVOIR, CAMBRAI 1918 AND THE PURSUIT TO THE SELLE
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    VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE WESTERN FRONT – BATTLES OF THE HINDENBURG LINE - ST QUENTIN, BEAUREVOIR, CAMBRAI 1918 AND THE PURSUIT TO THE SELLE
    PAUL OLDFIELD
    In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Battles of the Hindenburg Line - St Quentin...

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  • HITLER’S COMMAND
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    HITLER’S COMMAND
    REX BASHFORD
    The third in a three-part in depth study and deals with Hitler’s influence on the Wehrmacht and how his decisions influenced the advancement of weapons technology in this pivotal era of the Second World War. Hitler arrogated to himself the power to make all critical decisions relating to the strategic and operational deployment of the entire Wehrmacht, and this volume analyzes ...

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  • A HISTORY OF MODERN MERCENARY WARFARE
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    A HISTORY OF MODERN MERCENARY WARFARE
    HARRY MCCALLION
    Since before the time of Alexander the Great trained soldiers have sold their expertise on battlefield around the World, fighting and dying in other people’s wars for money, glory or the lust for violence and combat. In this book Harry McCallion explores the development of modern mercenary forces from the British SAS led deniable operation in Yemen in late 1960’s, during which ...

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  • ARMIES OF THE NORMANS 911–1194
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    ARMIES OF THE NORMANS 911–1194
    GABRIELE ESPOSITO
    The Norman story began in 911, when a frightened French king (Charles III ‘the Simple’) gave land on the Channel coast to the Viking leader Rollo in return for adopting Christianity and helping repel other Viking marauders. Rollo and his fellow Norsemen (hence ‘Normandy’ and ‘Normans’) adopted all the trappings of feudalism, evolving from pagan ship-borne raiders to archetypal ...

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  • THE GERMAN WAY OF WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941-1943
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    THE GERMAN WAY OF WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941-1943
    JAAP JAN BROUWER
    On 22 June 1941, at 0410hrs, Operation Barbarossa began. More than 3 million German soldiers crossed the border with the Soviet Union and moved east, where 4.7 million Soviet soldiers were waiting for them. Hitler expected his troops would be on the Volga before the end of the year and that important cities such as Moscow and Leningrad would have been captured. But the reality ...

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  • CRUSADER CASTLE
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    CRUSADER CASTLE
    MICHAEL S FULTON
    The formidable strongholds built by the crusaders are among the most iconic castles of the Middle Ages. These mighty structures offer fascinating insights into the lives of those who built and occupied them, and the role they played in the region’s deep history of conflict. The castle of Kerak, in modern Jordan, is one of the largest, most imposing and best preserved of them al...

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  • THE CORINTHIAN WAR, 395–387 BC
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    THE CORINTHIAN WAR, 395–387 BC
    JEFFREY SMITH
    At the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta reigned supreme in Greece. Having vanquished their rival Athens and quickly dismantled the wealthy and powerful Athenian Empire, Sparta set its sights on dominating the Mediterranean world and had begun a successful invasion of the vast Persian Empire under their legendary king Agesilaus II. But with their victory over Athen...

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  • MUSSOLINI, MUSTARD GAS AND THE FASCIST WAY OF WAR
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    MUSSOLINI, MUSTARD GAS AND THE FASCIST WAY OF WAR
    CHARLES STEPHENSON
    In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the chooser being Il Duce: Benito Mussolini. The resultant conflict is o...

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  • THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN
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    THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN
    W.A. WALLACE
    Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer died at the hands of Native Americans by the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana 25th June 1876. This is an established undisputed fact. What is disputed is the real reason that he died. So forget all you have been led to believe and begin to learn the truth. George Custer was anathema to his superiors, but the populace loved him. If he were ...

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  • GUSTAVUS V WALLENSTEIN
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    GUSTAVUS V WALLENSTEIN
    JOHN PIKE
    Explore the epic conflict and contrasting leadership styles of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, two titanic figures in the Thirty Years War whose strategic brilliance and dramatic deaths shaped the course of modern warfare, analyzed in vivid detail by the author. The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, general...

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  • SIR GARNET WOLSELEY
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    SIR GARNET WOLSELEY
    STEPHEN MANNING
    Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and the Sudan. He excelled as a regimental soldier, staff officer, army commander and reformer and eventually commander-in-chief. Y...

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  • PUTIN'S WARS AND NATO'S FLAWS
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    PUTIN'S WARS AND NATO'S FLAWS
    PAUL MOORCRAFT
    This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin’s actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict increasingly seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread? The author, a highly respected journalist and political commentator, explains why Russia invaded a sovereign neighbour. To what extent did NATO’...

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  • UNDERSTANDING ANCIENT BATTLE
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    UNDERSTANDING ANCIENT BATTLE
    HUGH ELTON
    Traditional military history of battles focussed on the strategies of great leaders, though in modern times many scholars have discussed the ‘face of battle’, describing the personal experience of the ordinary soldier. But in between, there still lies a major gap in our understanding of ancient combat: the officer’s battle. This focuses on how units actually fought and manoeuvr...

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  • THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, FEBRUARY - DECEMBER 2022
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    THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, FEBRUARY - DECEMBER 2022
    JOHN S HARREL
    On 24 February 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine, intending to overthrow the Zelensky government and bring the former Soviet republic back into the Russian sphere of control. Vladimir Putin clearly expected a quick victory and many in the West also predicted that Kiev would fall in a few days. But they hadn’t counted on the skilled, courageous and determined resistance of th...

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  • BREAKING THE SIEGFRIED LINE
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    BREAKING THE SIEGFRIED LINE
    TIM SAUNDERS
    In this second of Tim Saunders’ volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground. Amidst the rapidly rising flood waters, 3rd Canadian Division earned the nickname ‘The Water Rats’ as they fought to clear villages and dykes, while on their ...

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  • AN ILLUSTRATED TOUR OF THE 1879 ANGLO-ZULU BATTLEFIELDS
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    AN ILLUSTRATED TOUR OF THE 1879 ANGLO-ZULU BATTLEFIELDS
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without any government permission, Frere and Chelmsford invaded Zululand with five independent columns of troops. Both leaders ignored t...

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  • TANGIER
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    TANGIER
    JOHN HAWKINS
    In 1661 Portugal ceded Tangier to Charles II as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry settlement. Thus started the adventure known as ‘English Tangier’ whereby the Stuart monarch spent a king’s ransom defending a city perched precariously on the North African coast surrounded by hostile powers. Woven into the historical fabric of C17th, this is a compelling narrative history br...

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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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  • THE THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR AND BATTLE OF PYDNA
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    THE THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR AND BATTLE OF PYDNA
    GRAHAM WRIGHTSON
    The Third Roman-Macedonian War was a disaster for Macedon, a defeat leading to the end of that kingdom's independence. This is usually attributed to an innate superiority of the Roman legionary tactics over the Macedonian system. Graham Wrightson, on the other hand, argues that the blame lies entirely with Perseus, the last king of Macedon. He analyzes the whole war, following ...

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  • A GUARDSMAN IN THE CRIMEA
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    A GUARDSMAN IN THE CRIMEA
    MARTIN SHEPPARD
    The Brigade of Guards was the elite force of the British Army in the Crimea. William Scarlett, a captain in the Scots Fusilier Guard and one of the most active junior officers in the regiment, fought throughout the entire campaign. After the Allied landing at Kalamita Bay, Scarlett rallied his regiment at a critical moment during the battle of the Alma, supported by his company...

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  • ONE STEP IN A POPPY FIELD
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    ONE STEP IN A POPPY FIELD
    BRONWYN ROYCE
    ‘A deeply moving and profoundly important account not only of one soldier’s survival, but of optimism, courage, of a dogged determination to succeed whatever it takes, and of the enduring power of love between a mother and her son. The lessons for us all in this book are immeasurably powerful. It offers hope to the many whose lives have been changed forever, directly or indirec...

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  • THE DAWN OF GUERRILLA WARFARE
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    THE DAWN OF GUERRILLA WARFARE
    BENJAMIN J SWENSON
    Historiographically groundbreaking transnational history of the Mexican-American War. While one military empire in Europe lay in ruins, another awakened in North America. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency undermining Napoleon’s grip on that state and ultimately hastening the destruction of the French Army in Europe....

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  • GREAT BATTLES OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
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    GREAT BATTLES OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
    SIMON ELLIOTT
    Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show how the vaunted Roman legions adapted to extremes of terrain and climate as well as a wide array of very different foes, from t...

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  • ROAD TO CIVIL WAR, 1625-1642
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    ROAD TO CIVIL WAR, 1625-1642
    TIMOTHY VENNING
    A revisionist history showing a gradual build-up of opposition and a drift to conflict which few expected or wanted. And this was despite growing Stuart absolutism, threats to Parliament and the accepted civil order and religious controversy. It is forensic study, full of fascinating and even unexpected details, principal actors come to life and readers will feel involved in an...

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  • THE DEATH OF JOACHIM MURAT
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    THE DEATH OF JOACHIM MURAT
    JONATHAN NORTH
    Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 1808, Napoleon appointed him king of Naples. He loyally ran this strategic Italian kingdom with his wife, Napoleon’s sister Caroline, until, in 1814, with Napoleon beaten and in retreat towards ruin and exile, the royal couple chose to betray their imperia...

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  • THE GERMAN LIBERATION WAR OF 1813
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    THE GERMAN LIBERATION WAR OF 1813
    ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE / PETER G A PHILLIPS
    The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. The author, Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon and wrote down his reminisces shortly after the war based on the notes that he kept while campaigning. Born in 1788, ...

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