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  • Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs

    by John H. Gill ...
    Series Book 1 - 1809: Thunder on the Danube
    This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon's last great victory.On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon's last victorious war. Even then, the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Znaim

    Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the end of the War of 1809

    by John H. Gill ...
    The acclaimed Napoleonic historian sheds new light on a fascinating yet little-known battle in the Franco-Austrian War.Occurring in July of 1809, the Battle of Znaim was the last to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended hostilities between France and Austria and is now considered a unique episode of simultaneous conflict ... Read more

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  • With Eagles to Glory

    Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign

    by John H. Gill ...
    When Napoleon's Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, these troops provided played a key role as Napoleon swept from victory to victory and in 1809 their fighting abilities were crucial to the campaign. With Napoleon's French troops depleted and debilitated after ... Read more

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  • Broken Eagles – Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1813 Campaign

    Volume II – Württemberg, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Westphalia and the Small States

    by John H. Gill ...
    Traditional accounts of the campaigns of 1813 concentrate on the major powers: Napoleon’s France versus Russia, joined successively by Prussia, Sweden and Austria, and how, as in the French catastrophe of 1812, early successes were transformed into ruinous defeat. However, the smaller German states in Napoleon’s alliance system, the Confederation of the Rhine, or Rheinbund, also played an ... Read more

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  • A Soldier for Napoleon

    The Campaigns of Lieutenant Franz Joseph Hausmann: 7th Bavarian Infantry

    by Franz Joseph Hausmann ...
    Translated by Cynthia Joy Hausmann ...
    Series series Napoleonic Library
    "A good description of what it was like to be a member of the Royal Bavarian Army" from the firsthand accounts of Lieutenant Franz Joseph Hausmann ( HistoryNet).The letters and diaries of Lieutenant Franz Joseph Hausmann are here placed in the context of the military events of the period by renowned historian John Gill. They stem from Hausmann's first campaign in 1805 in the war against Austria, ... Read more

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  • Thunder on the Danube

    Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol. II: The Fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspern

    by John H. Gill ...
    In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon’s progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria’s invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had battered the Habsburg Archduke Charles in a series of bruising defeats.This volume begins with Napoleon astride the Danube at Regensburg. He faced a ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III

    Wagram and Znaim

    by John H. Gill ...
    Series Book 3 - 1809: Thunder on the Danube
    "A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon's last great victory" (HistoryOfWar.org).With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important ... Read more

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    The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930–1936

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    The acclaimed naval historian presents an authoritative study of how the 1930 Treaty of London influenced warship design in the years before WW2.After the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 put a cap on the construction of capital ships and aircraft carriers, the major navies of the world began building 'treaty cruisers' and other warships that maximized power while abiding the restrictions. As the ... Read more

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  • Just Another Day in Vietnam

    by Keith M. Nightingale ...
    This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III ... Read more

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  • Midlothian Mayhem

    Murder, Miners and the Military in Old Midlothian

    by Malcolm Archibald ...
    Murders, riots, strikes and runaway horses. Midlothian in the 18th and 19th centuries was an interesting place to live.This book introduces the reader to the hard lives of the colliers, the birth of the rural police force and the impact the army had on life in the county south of Scotland's capital city. Highwaymen and grave robbers, footpads and murderers, illicit distillers and murderous ... Read more

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  • Take These Men

    Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

    by Cyril Joly ...
    A 1955 military memoir offering a first-hand account of life in the British 7th Armoured Division during World War II.Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind.From 1940 ... Read more

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  • Dunkirk

    The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation

    by John Harris ...
    How the miracle on the beaches saved a nation. A gripping account of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World WarIn May 1940 British and Allied troops on mainland Europe were in a perilous situation: cut off and surrounded, at the conclusion of the bloody Battle of France they faced complete annihilation. It would be a devastating blow, handing Europe to the Nazis.But over a few frantic ... Read more

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