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21 The Final Unfinished Voyage Of Jack Aubrey: The Unfinished Twenty First Novel In The Aubrey/maturin Seriesby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039306025X (0-393-06025-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Art of Warby Antoine Henri De JominiISBN 1853671193 (1-85367-119-3)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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The Art of War.by Charles Messenger, Henri Jomini, Antoine Henri De JominiISBN 1853672491 (1-85367-249-1)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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The Art of War.by Henri JominiISBN 0837150140 (0-8371-5014-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War.'Book summary:The greatest military textbook of the nineteenth century, this famous analysis of the art of Napoleonic warfare had a profound influence upon the military education of American officers in the decades prior to the Civil War.
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The Art of War by Baron De Jominiby Antoine Henri De JominiISBN 0976072661 (0-9760726-6-1)
Softcover, El Paso Norte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War by Baron De Jomini'Book summary:The Art of War by Baron De Jomini was considered by most military experts of the day, at the time of the American Civil War, to be the definitive work on strategy and warfare. Even today, it is highly regarded as a seminal work in the development of strategy.
Antoine Henri de Jomini was one of Napoleon's most capable generals. He contributed to almost all of Napoleon's major battles. Napoleon regarded him so highly he made him Baron De Jomini. At the close of the Napoleonic wars De Jomini became General and Aide de camp for the Tsar of Russia. His first-hand accounts and rigorous analysis of important battles is still a major resource on tactics, strategy and warfare.
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Special Edition
The Art of War By Mao Tse-tung - Special Edition
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Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemiesby Brent NosworthyISBN 0094745102 (0-09-474510-2)
Hardcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaignsby Owen ConnellyISBN 0742553183 (0-7425-5318-3)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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- Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns: ISBN 0842027807 (0-8420-2780-7)
Softcover, Scholarly Resources Inc - Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns: ISBN 0842027793 (0-8420-2779-3)
Hardcover, Scholarly Resources Inc - Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns: ISBN 0842023755 (0-8420-2375-5)
Softcover, Scholarly Resources Inc - Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns: ISBN 0842022317 (0-8420-2231-7)
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Borodino-The Moskova: The Battle for the Redoubtsby Francois Guy HourtoulleISBN 2908182963 (2-908182-96-3)
Hardcover, Histoire & Collections
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The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Warsby Nadezhda Durova, Mary Fleming ZirinISBN 0253205492 (0-253-20549-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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"... a ripping yarn... admirable translation... sensitive introductory essay." Times Literary Supplement
"... a remarkable journal worthy of the attention of a wide audience." Doris Grumbach, National Public Radio
In male guise, Nadezhda Durova served ten years in the Russian cavalry. The Cavalry Maiden is a lively narrative which appeals in our own time as a unique and gripping contribution to the literature of female experience.
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A Close Run Thingby Allan MallinsonISBN 0553380435 (0-553-38043-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Close Run Thing'Book summary:Allan Mallinson wastes no time getting the reader into the thick of things: by page 2 of this novel, set during the Napoleonic wars, protagonist Coronet Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is up to his neck in battle and blood. By page 8, he's on his way to a court martial, the result of his own hasty temper and the politics of the military. Though the young soldier's career is never in serious danger, Mallinson uses the episode effectively to make a point about 19th-century military life:
Anyone who thought that survival in this war depended merely on fighting the enemy was naïve in the extreme. Jealousy, snobbery, intrigue, and patronage were the preoccupations of men of ambition in the Marquess of Wellington's army; and Hervey and others like him, decent officers with little but the ability to recommend them, were increasingly resentful of Wellington's indifference to it all. Indeed, many believed he actively connived at it.
Politics and infighting within the ranks are, indeed, important elements in A Close Run Thing, which follows the fortunes of young Matthew Hervey, his regiment, and Wellington's army through the last year of the Napoleonic wars. What makes the novel so fascinating is that the most dangerous enemies are seldom the ones being fought on the battlefield. There are the villains--General "Black Jack" Slade, for example, "as incompetent an officer as was ever placed in command of a brigade of cavalry"; and to a lesser degree, Wellington himself, who seems indifferent to the system of patronage that kept people like Slade in positions of power. And there are the heroes--Hervey and his commanding officer, Major Joseph Edmonds, among others. As war's fortunes take them from France to Ireland and back again to the continent and an insignificant Belgian village called Waterloo, Mallinson paints a vivid portrait not only of military life but of the European political milieu.In his note at the beginning of A Close Run Thing, Mallinson writes that he's long been a fan of Patrick O'Brian 's naval fictions set during the Napoleonic wars and that he "began to fret for anything remotely comparable for the cavalry of that period." Though one might wish Matthew Hervey had been more fully developed as a character, à la O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, Mallinson writes a battlefield scene with the same brio and encyclopedic knowledge that O'Brian brings to his engagements at sea. From the details of charging a French battery of guns to the peculiar ailments of a cavalry horse, Mallinson, himself a serving officer in a British cavalry regiment, knows his subject inside and out. This is a book sure to appeal to military-history buffs and readers looking for a ripping good adventure tale alike. --Alix Wilber [via]
Dictionary of the Napoleonic Warsby David G. ChandlerISBN 1840222034 (1-84022-203-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Every Man Will Do His Duty : An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelsonby Dean King, John B. HattendorfISBN 0805046097 (0-8050-4609-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Man Will Do His Duty : An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson - 1793-1815'Book summary:The phenomenal success of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels has spawned a great hunger for more reading material on the Royal Navy and the Napoleonic Wars. Dean King has combed through mountains of primary-source material and has selected the most riveting, informative, and entertaining accounts from the great age of sail. His explorations have, in the words of Douglas Day, C. W. Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, "yielded a collection of narratives that are just as exciting as the marvelous Aubrey--Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian."[via]
Told by actual participants, the eyewitness stories range from slices of life at sea to events of great historical significance, including epic battles such as those of Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar, and the death of Nelson. Every Man Will Do His Duty is sure to delight legions of seafaring adventure fans.More editions of Every Man Will Do His Duty : An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson:
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Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Every Man Will Do His Duty : An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson - 1793-1815: ISBN 0805046097 (0-8050-4609-7)
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0140048979 (0-14-004897-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Flag Captainby Alexander KentISBN 0425037347 (0-425-03734-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Flying Ensignby Showell StylesISBN 1883937701 (1-883937-70-1)
Softcover, Bethlehem Books
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The Frigates: An Account of the Lesser Warships of the Wars from 1793 to 1815by James HendersonISBN 1853266930 (1-85326-693-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Historical Maps of the Napoleonic Warsby Michael SwiftISBN 1856486516 (1-85648-651-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Historical Maps Of The Napoleonic Warsby Simon FortyISBN 1856487334 (1-85648-733-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A History of the Peninsular War: January-September 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaignby Charles OmanISBN 1853672157 (1-85367-215-7)
Hardcover, Stackpole Books
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A History Of The Peninsular War: October 1811 To August 31, 1812; Valencia, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madridby Charles OmanISBN 1853676349 (1-85367-634-9)
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History of the Peninsular War, January to September 1809: From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign -- Greenhill Military Paperbacksby Charles OmanISBN 185367589X (1-85367-589-X)
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The Hornblower Companionby C. S. ForesterISBN 1861760981 (1-86176-098-1)
Softcover, Chatham Pub
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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LA Batailleby Patrick RamabaudISBN 224652721X (2-246-52721-X)
Softcover, B. Grasset
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Life in Nelson's Navyby Dudley PopeISBN 1557505160 (1-55750-516-0)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Life in Nelsons Navy 1793-1815by Dudley PopeISBN 0870213466 (0-87021-346-6)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Men-Of-War: Life in Nelson's Navyby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393038580 (0-393-03858-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Midshipman Bolithoby Alexander KentISBN 0935526412 (0-935526-41-2)
Softcover, McBooks Pr
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The Midshipman Quinn Collectionby Showell StylesISBN 1883937450 (1-883937-45-0)
Softcover, Bethlehem Books
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Napoleon Bonaparteby Alan SchomISBN 0060929588 (0-06-092958-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte'Book summary:You won't come away from this energetic biography thinking much of the French emperor either as a man or as a general. Historian Alan Schom depicts Napoleon (1769-1821) as a cold-hearted manipulator: Schom's blistering accounts of the 1798-99 Egyptian campaign and the disastrous 1812 retreat from Russia show the French army decimated due to its leader's failure to inform himself about the lands he was invading or to properly plan for provisioning his troops. The fun of this book comes from vigorous prose that vividly evokes Bonaparte's titanic personality and the colorful band of schemers surrounding him. [via]
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Lifeby Alan SchomISBN 0060172142 (0-06-017214-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life'Book summary:Filling a remarkable gap, Alan Schom, an acclaimed historian, scholar, and author, offers the most complete picture ever of Napoleon Bonaparte, "the scourge of Europe" and France's greatest hero. Based on more than ten years of exhaustive research, Schom illuminates Napoleon's important economic and social reforms, his reorganization of the French government, and his tempestuous personal life and its effect on his political decisions.Remarkably ambitious and compulsively readable, Napoleon Bonaparte covers every aspect of l'Empereur's life and career, from his childhood on Corsica to his dramatic rise to the throne of France, his campaigns of conquest to his final crushing defeat at Waterloo and death in exile on St. Helena. A lively and accessible text, Schom's book is generously illustrated with halftones and maps and features startling new insights about Napoleon's key aides, ministers, and generals. Schom portrays Napoleon with candor, exalting his ambition and undeniable genius, but also addressing his dark side -- his ego, his failures and frailties, and the misery caused by his years of warfare across Europe. Powerful, dramatic, colorful, and impossible to put down, Napoleon Bonaparte is a biography as complex, challenging, and fascinating as the legend himself. [via]
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Napoleon's Great Adversary: Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792-1814by Gunther E. RothenbergISBN 1885119216 (1-885119-21-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Napoleon's Marshalsby David C. ChandlerISBN 0029059305 (0-02-905930-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Napoleonic Warsby Gunther E. RothenbergISBN 006085121X (0-06-085121-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Napoleonic Warsby John Keegan, Gunther E. RothenbergISBN 0304352675 (0-304-35267-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History 1792-1815by Michael GloverISBN 0882547100 (0-88254-710-0)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Hardcover, Batsford - Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History 1792-1815: ISBN 088254473X (0-88254-473-X)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books - Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History 1792-1815: ISBN 0882547100 (0-88254-710-0)
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Nelson and the Nile: The Naval War Against Bonaparte 1798by Brian Lavery, National Maritime Museum StaffISBN 186176040X (1-86176-040-X)
Hardcover, Duckworth & Company, Limited, Gerald
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Nelson: The Essential Heroby Ernle Dusgate Selby BradfordISBN 1840222026 (1-84022-202-6)
Hardcover, Wordsworth Editions
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Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the Worldby Roy AdkinsISBN 0143037951 (0-14-303795-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World'Book summary:An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle[via]
In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.More editions of Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World:
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, Gillian BeerISBN 0141439688 (0-14-143968-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Jane Austen's last completed novel features a heroine much older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and presents a more intimate and sober tale of a love found long after such happiness had been deemed hopeless. This edition includes an appendix giving the original ending of Persuasion . [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Persuasion: ISBN 0375757295 (0-375-75729-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Persuasion: ISBN 0393960188 (0-393-96018-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Persuasion: ISBN 0451526384 (0-451-52638-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Persuasion: ISBN 0460018949 (0-460-01894-9)
Softcover, Everyman - Persuasion: ISBN 0486295559 (0-486-29555-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Persuasion With a Memoir of Jane Austen: ISBN 0140430059 (0-14-043005-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Persuasion: ISBN 0140434674 (0-14-043467-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Persuasion: ISBN 0192815466 (0-19-281546-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Persuasion: ISBN 0192827596 (0-19-282759-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Persuasion: ISBN 0451522893 (0-451-52289-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Persuasion: ISBN 0192503561 (0-19-250356-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Persuasion: ISBN 0141439688 (0-14-143968-8)
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Persuasionby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0192833618 (0-19-283361-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Persuasionby Pat RogersISBN 0460875299 (0-460-87529-9)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfareby John KeeganISBN 0140096507 (0-14-009650-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare'Book summary:Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: The Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. [via]
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The Price of Admiralty: War at Sea from Man of War to Submarineby John KeeganISBN 0091737710 (0-09-173771-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Admiralty: War at Sea from Man of War to Submarine'Book summary:The aim of John Keegan's new book is to apply to warfare at sea the same technique he employed in his classic work The Face of Battle, so to discover how men have fought at sea, and to explore the nature of the indvidual's experience of combat over changing times. The conflicts Keegan has chosen begin with Trafalgar in 1805, a classic and well-documented example of ship-of-the-line battle. Next he turns to Jutland, posing very different problems for commander and seaman alike. Then to the Battle of Midway, where he examines the particular role played by the aircraft carrier, with its 'two societies', that of the ship itself and that of the 'air group' elite which supplied its raison d'etre. Finally he examines the Battle of the Atlantic, in which he recreates a picture both of everyday life and operational routine within the boat that saw the last great technical transformation of naval operations, and ultimately the most significant - the submarine. The book concludes with a survey of how naval warfare may be expected to evolve in the future - with surface navies disappearing altogether. [via]
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Richard Bolithoby Alexander KentISBN 0399205144 (0-399-20514-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Richard Bolitho-Midshipmanby Alexander KentISBN 0899669719 (0-89966-971-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811by Bernard CornwellISBN 000712015X (0-00-712015-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollinsPublishers
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Tom Cringle's Logby Michael ScottISBN 1419190407 (1-4191-9040-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Cringle's Log'Book summary:Now, said the Irish sergeant, "I could brain you, but it is not worth while!"--I question if he could, however, knowing as I did the thickness of their skulls, "Ah, here they come!"--and a dozen half drunken, more than half--naked, bloated, villainous--looking blackamoors, with shovels and pick--axes on their shoulders, came along the road, laughing and singing most lustily. They passed beneath where we sat, and, when about a stonecast beyond, they all jumped into a trench or pit, which I had not noticed before, about twenty feet long, by eight wide. [via]
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battleby Roy AdkinsISBN 0316725110 (0-316-72511-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Trafalgar:the Nelson Touch: The Nelson Touchby David Armine HowarthISBN 0002118270 (0-00-211827-0)
Hardcover, Collins
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 1934169080 (1-934169-08-0)
Hardcover, Norilana Books
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Waterloo: A Near Run Thingby David Armine HowarthISBN 1900624028 (1-900624-02-8)
Hardcover, The Windrush Press
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The Waterloo Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Land Battleby Mark AdkinISBN 185410764X (1-85410-764-X)
Hardcover, Aurum Press
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815 the Battle for Modern Europeby Andrew Roberts, Lisa Jardine, Amanda ForemanISBN 0060762152 (0-06-076215-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waterloo: June 18, 1815 the Battle for Modern Europe'Book summary:Part of the Making History Series Waterloo is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.The illustrious Making History Series, edited by Lisa Jardine and Amanda Foreman, explores an eclectic mix of history's tipping points.In Waterloo, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also a startling interrogation into the methodology of history is it possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint? What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended forever one of the great personal epics. The career of Napoleon was brought to a shuddering halt on the evening of 18 June 1815. Interwoven in the clear-cut narrative are exciting revelations brought to light by recent research: accident rather than design led to the crucial cavalry debacle that lost the battle. Amongst the all-too-human explanation for the blunder that cost Napoleon his throne, Roberts sets the political, strategic and historical scene, and finally shows why Waterloo was such an important historical punctuation mark.The generation after Waterloo saw the birth of the modern era: ghastly as the carnage here was, henceforth the wars of the future were fought with infinitely more ghastly methods of trenches, machine-guns, directed starvation, concentration camps, and aerial bombardment. By the time of the Great War, chivalry was utterly dead. The honour of bright uniform and tangible spirit of élan met their final dance at Waterloo. [via]
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Wellington in the Peninsulaby Jac WellerISBN 1853673811 (1-85367-381-1)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Wellington in the Peninsula 1808-1814by Jac WellerISBN 1853671274 (1-85367-127-4)
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Wellington : The Iron Dukeby Richard HolmesISBN 0007137508 (0-00-713750-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-Pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navyby David MillerISBN 0762416521 (0-7624-1652-1)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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La Feria De Las Vanidades / Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfonso NadalISBN 8497937848 (84-9793-784-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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La mirada desencantada e irónica del director de escena no es otra que la de William M. Thackeray, maestro en el arte de crear personajes femeninos. Así, pronto veremos pisar el escenario a dos mujeres inolvidables: Amelia Sedley, dulce y sensible pero apocada, deseosa de entregar su vida al hombre que ama, y Becky Sharp, inteligente y ambiciosa, dispuesta a usar y abusar de sus encantos para ascender en la escala social. Estas figuras tópicas cobran vida en manos de Thackeray, y lo que podría ser la trama de un culebrón de sobremesa se convierte en un juego fascinante, lleno de trampas y de emoción, en una obra magistral de la literatura de todos los tiempos. [via]More editions of La Feria De Las Vanidades / Vanity Fair:
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LA Batailleby Patrick RamabaudISBN 2253146463 (2-253-14646-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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