The Napoleonic Wars Av Prof Richard Holmes

The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt''s Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of...

Originally published as _Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies From 1799 to 1815 this is one of the most magnificent of all period art books to have been produced. The text is pure British propaganda but is overshadowed by the rarity of...

<P><I>Voices from the Napoleonic Wars</I> reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along...

First volume of this wide-ranging study of artillery of the Napoleonic era.