Battle For Paris 1815 Av Paul L. Dawson

This is the remarkable untold story of a group of men and women in the West Riding of Yorkshire who for nearly a century between 1776 and 1865 fought to end slavery and make the world a fairer and more equal place.

Histories of the Waterloo campaign and tours of the battlefield generally concentrate on the battle between the armies of Napoleon and Wellington and the role of Blucher's Prussians is left in the background. This account tells how the Prussians...

Wakefield was an important market town in the Middle Ages, as well as an inland port on the River Calder. It prospered through trade and industry in textiles, coal mining, tanning and grain, becoming the county town of West Yorkshire in the Industrial...

Unique study of the Peninsular War from the French perspective.