These are the magnificent works of Detaille, Meissonier, Vernet, Lady Butler, Hillingford and many of the other artists who sought to capture on canvas the most celebrated incidents of the Napoleonic Wars. Through their battle paintings these great artists tell an intriguing tale, of power, greatness, greed and hubris.
Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles. The authors of this book, the first volume of two,...
2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services
by Andrew W Field
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526797773
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
224 Pages
This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full in English, completes Andrew Field’s pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. These vivid recollections add a new dimension to our understanding of what happened on 18 June 1815.
The Dutch Army in the War of Liberation and the Hundred Days 1813-1815
by Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar
Price: $42.50
ISBN: 9781915070463
Pub Date: 2024-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
204 Pages
The book gives a detailed and vivid description of the build-up of the Netherlands Army during and after the War of Liberation in 1813-1815, based on biographies of officers and men who served in that army, and much previously unpublished contemporary material.
After the Peace of Amiens was broken in 1803, Great Britain found herself at war with an old enemy (France) but also with a new competitor (Napoleon): the latter was the greatest military commander...
This work, the third in a new four volume series, takes a fresh and in depth look at the events of the opening months of the Franco Prussian War between Napoleon’s Imperial Army and King Wilhelm’s...
Before dawn on June 24, 1859, near the small northern Italian town of Solferino, the largest battle on the European continent since the Napoleonic Wars was fought. The crucial encounter of the Second...
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