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  • The Great War of 189-: A Forecast

    Envisioning Future Wars through Fictional Forecasts

    by Charles Lowe, Archibald Forbes, David Christie Murray, F. N. Maude, Frank Scudamore, John Frederick Maurice, P. H. Colomb ...
    The anthology 'The Great War of 189-: A Forecast' presents a visionary exploration of hypothetical global conflict at the close of the 19th century. It brings together a tapestry of narratives, hypothesizing the onset and implications of a future war. These speculative accounts, varying from strategic musings to socio-political consequences, provide a profound commentary on the destructive ... Read more

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  • The Great War of 189-: A Forecast

    by David Christie Murray, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, John Frederick Maurice, Frank Scudamore, F. N. Maude, P. H. Colomb ...
    The Great War of 189-: A Forecast is a prescient collection that traverses the looming specters of nineteenth-century warfare through an imaginative lens. This anthology delves into the complexities and tensions of a world on the brink of conflict. Each narrative is a profound reflection on war's impact on human consciousness and society, exhibiting a kaleidoscope of styles from speculative ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot. Vol. I

    by Général de Brigade, Baron Louis-François Lejeune ...
    Translated by Mrs Arthur Bell ...
    Series series The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot.
    Amongst the many memoirs of the Napoleonic period, there are a number that stand out not just for their historical value, but also for their actual written style; however, in this sense Lejeune stands alone. He was by nature an artist and is still famous as a noted painter of scenes of battles, most of which he witnessed. As such his scenes are like his paintings, filled with evocative detail.The ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot. Vol. II

    by Général de Brigade, Baron Louis-François Lejeune ...
    Translated by Mrs Arthur Bell ...
    Series series The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot.
    Amongst the many memoirs of the Napoleonic period, there are a number that stand out not just for their historical value, but also for their actual written style, however in this sense Lejeune stands alone. Lejeune was by nature an artist and is still a famous as a noted painter of scenes of battles, most of which he witnessed. As such his scenes are like his painting filled with evocative detail ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon

    Enriched edition. Insider Account of Napoleon's Reign and the Napoleonic Wars

    by comte Jean Rapp, Alicia Stevens ...
    In his reflective work, "Memoirs of General Count Rapp, First Aide-de-Camp to Napoleon," Comte Jean Rapp offers a vivid firsthand account of the Napoleonic Wars, capturing the tumultuous events that shaped early 19th-century Europe. Written with an engaging narrative style that merges personal experience with broader historical analysis, Rapp's memoirs are both a military chronicle and a personal ... Read more

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  • Days to Remember

    The British Empire in the Great War

    by John Buchan, Henry Newbolt ...
    The First World War was, for Britain, as much about Imperial conflict, as it was about fighting on the Western front.Hundreds of millions of colonial subjects were forced into the war alongside Britain, and made a huge difference to the strength of the British army.In this fascinating study, Henry Newbolt and John Buchan take a general overview of the First World War, from its causes to the ... Read more

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  • World War I - 9 Book Collection

    Enriched edition. Nelson's History of the War, The Battle of Jutland & The Battle of the Somme

    by John Buchan, Brent Holloway ...
    John Buchan's 'World War I - 9 Book Collection' is a comprehensive exploration of the tumultuous period of the First World War through a series of nine compelling and historically accurate novels. Buchan's literary style combines gripping narratives with a meticulous attention to detail, providing readers with a vivid and immersive experience of the era. The collection delves into the complex ... Read more

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  • Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

    From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Voices from the Napoleonic Wars 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 with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat.Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Army 1809-1814 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE ...
    Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War.Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that was to become Wellington's Army. Into Wellington's Army he gathered, as he says in his Preface, "much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various ... Read more

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  • Marching with Wellington

    With the Inniskillings in the Napoleonic Wars

    by Martin Cassidy ...
    Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there. ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Army

    by Charles Oman ...
    WHILE WORKING FOR THE LAST nine years at the History of the Peninsular War, I have (as was inevitable) been compelled to accumulate many notes, and much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various campaigns that lie between 1808 and 1814, but yet possesses high interest in itself, and throws many a side-light on the general course of the war. ... Read more

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  • A History Of The British Army – Vol. X – (1814-1815)

    by Sir John William Fortescue ...
    Series series A History of the British Army
    Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with ... Read more

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