Barnsley, U.K.: Frontline Books, 2013. — 320 p. : maps and plates. The British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813–14 in support of the Dutch revolt against the French is one of the lesser-known campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, but one of which the great historian of the British Army Sir John Fortescue wrote that it was impossible to understand the Waterloo campaign without...
Foreword by Donald E. Graves. — Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — (Campaigns and Commanders series, Volume 37). — 384 p. : 10 b&w illus., 15 tables. Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword , military historian Andrew Bamford...
Walker and Company Books, 2006. — 340 p. At Waterloo (1815), some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic and bloody struggle. In the end, as John Keegan notes, contemporaries felt that Napoleon's defeat had "reversed the tide of European history." Even 190 years later, the name Waterloo resounds. Italian historian...
Bellona, 1989. — 233 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Somosierra took place on November 30, 1808, during the Peninsular War, when a French army under Napoleon I forced a passage through the Sierra de Guadarrama shielding Madrid. At the Somosierra mountain pass, 60 miles north of Madrid, a heavily outnumbered Spanish detachment of conscripts and artillery under Benito de...
Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1987. — 355 pgs. This book provides new archival information on the composition of the French, British, Prussian, Dutch, and other allied armies. It also provides a novel look at the campaign itself by providing a complete set of near-contemporary full color tactical maps together with a clear explanatory text. The combination of detail on...
Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1987. — 355 pgs. This book provides new archival information on the composition of the French, British, Prussian, Dutch, and other allied armies. It also provides a novel look at the campaign itself by providing a complete set of near-contemporary full color tactical maps together with a clear explanatory text. The combination of detail on...
Foreword by His Grace The Duke of Wellington. — Barnsley, U.K.: Praetorian Press, Pen & Sword Books, 2012. — 624 p., [48] p. pl. (some color). Please note : Sorry, there's no CD-rom attached. Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to...
Foreword by His Grace The Duke of Wellington. — Barnsley, U.K.: Praetorian Press, Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 688 p., ill. (some col.) Please note : Sorry, there's no CD-rom. Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in...
Frontline Books, 2011. — 352 p. Like the author’s previous book, The British Army Against Napoleon, Charging Against Wellington draws heavily on primary sources, manuals, memoirs, and regimental histories to bring to life the officers and men of the regiments that fought. The book is divided into three sections. The first contains biographies of 80 generals who led the French...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 304 p.; maps, b & w and col. illus. The defeat of Napoleon’s French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of Europe for the next century and beyond. The...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 224 p. ; maps. The first French invasion of Portugal in 1807 - which was commanded by Junot, one of Napoleon's most experienced generals - was a key event in the long, brutal Peninsular War. It was the first campaign fought in the Peninsular by Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, yet it tends to be overshadowed by more...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 256 p. ; maps. At the heart of David Buttery’s third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation – Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted each other...
Pen & Sword, 2012. — 224 p. In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and questions the assumptions - and explores the myths - that have shaped our understanding of the event ever since. His account follows every twist and turn of a...
Ann Arbor, MI: Charles River Editors, 2019. — 110 p. Napoleon’s enemies would famously say he was worth 50,000 men in the field, but the simple truth is he wasn’t able to dominate Europe on his own. In fact, the subordinates and soldiers underneath him participated in several of history’s most famous battles and charted the course of Napoleon’s rise and fall. The French army...
London, UK : Little, Brown Book Group, 2014. — 705 p., illus., maps. 'A fabulous story, superbly told' Max Hastings The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 304 p. In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 288 p. Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's army undertook, and it is an important contribution to the history of siege warfare during the Napoleonic Wars. He sets the siege in the...
London, UK : Atlantic Books, 2014. — 384 p., illus. Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial France and her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory for the Allied armies of...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. — 336 p., illus., tables, maps. On 14 June 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte fought his first battle as French head of state at Marengo in northern Italy. Unexpectedly attacked, Napoleon’s army fought one of the most intense battles of the French Revolutionary Wars. Forced to retreat, and threatened with encirclement, Napoleon saved his...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 415 p. This is the story of people who were caught up in the blazing trail of Napoleon's epic career. It describes the Napoleonic war machine from within, shedding light on the lives and feats of soldiers on whose toil a spectacular Empire was built and lost. This is far more than a regimental history, as it depicts a time of epic change spent in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 316 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). Combining military and cultural history this book offers a new perspective on the British soldier in the Peninsular War. For all the histories of the Peninsular War and its continuing romantic appeal in the British imagination, little attention has been paid to how young British officers and enlisted...
Chelsea House, 2012. — 127 p. Charles Dickens famously called the era of the French Revolution the best and worst of times. For 10 years, from 1789 to 1799, France struggled to inaugurate a new European order based on the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the process, men wrote constitutions, women marched for bread, politicians condemned innocent people to...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 328 p. Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsular War. In this book, author Huw J. Davies offers the first full account of the scope, complexity, and importance of Wellington’s intelligence department, describing a...
Cassell Military Paperbacks, 1999. — 194 p. Christopher Duffy's book on Battle of Austerlitz proves to be a short and interesting account. The book is only 170 p. long on narrative and rest of the 24 p. is index, order of battle and other assortive matters. The account of the battle don't start until page 100. The layout is pretty close to what an extended Osprey campaign book...
Longman, 2001. — 328 p. Two hundred years ago, Napoleon was at the apogee of his power in Europe. This broad ranging reassessment explores the key themes presented by his extraordinary career: from his rise to power and the foundation of the imperial state, to the final defeat of his grand vision following the doomed invasion of Russia. It was a period of almost uninterrupted...
Barnsley, U.K.: Praetorian Press, Pen & Sword Books, 2013. — 384 p., maps. 1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwards’s compelling new...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 337 p. Napoleon’s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature of warfare. Concepts of chance, contingency, and probability became permanent fixtures in the West’s understanding of how the world works....
Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 257 p., illus. So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from the military viewpoint, this is very much the case. But one critical aspect of the story has gone all but untold – the French home front. Little has been written about the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — 251 p. This work is an analysis of a relatively unknown aspect of the Duke of Wellington's career, his tenure of the command of the Spanish army between 1812 and 1814. It provides an interesting case study of the problems faced by a coalition general. The author has also written "The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War".
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 640 p. At the end of the eighteenth century Spain remained one of the world's most powerful empires. Thanks to a period of enlightened absolutism, Portugal, too, was prosperous. But by 1808, all this had changed. Portugal was under occupation and, ravaged by famine, disease, economic problems and political instability, Spain had undergone and...
Tantor Media, 2008. No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought down by petty, reactionary kings of Europe? In the most definitive account to date, respected historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor...
Tantor Media, 2008 No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought down by petty, reactionary kings of Europe? In the most definitive account to date, respected historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor...
Tantor Media, 2008 No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought down by petty, reactionary kings of Europe? In the most definitive account to date, respected historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 336 p.; maps, plates. In this concluding volume of his highly praised study exploring the French perspective of the Waterloo campaign, Andrew Field concentrates on an often neglected aspect of Napoleon's final offensive the French victory over the Prussians at Ligny, Marshal Grouchy's pursuit of the Prussians and the battle at...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 256 p., maps, figs, b & w and col. illus. The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign – to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blücher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 224 p. : ill., maps, ports. The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a bloody contest the British and Spanish under Wellesley and Cuesta won a tactical victory over the French forces of Victor and Joseph Bonaparte. The battle was the climax of the offensive launched by Wellesley and his...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 352 p. This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase – the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army. The text is based exclusively on French eyewitness accounts which give an inside view of the immediate aftermath of the battle and...
University of South Carolina Press, 1992. — 198 p. Counterpoint to Trafalgar offers the first detailed account of the important land and sea campaign in the Napoleonic wars: the Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples, which prevented Napoleon from controlling the Mediterranean during the war of the third coalition. Flayhart recounts the exciting story of the chaotic efforts of the...
London, Brassey's Publishing, 2000. — 144 p. Designed for those with an interest in the Napoleonic Wars, from 1804 to 1815, this is a guide to all the uniforms worn in the Duke of Wellington's victorious army, from the hard campaigning of the Peninsular War to the final great victory over Napoleon at Waterloo. Each regiment and unit in Wellington's army is described, and its...
Hambledon Continuum, 2002. — 277 p. Napoleon's soldiers marched across Europe from Lisbon to Moscow, and from Germany to Dalmatia. Many of the men, mostly conscripted by ballot, had never before been beyond their native village. What did they make of their extraordinary experiences, fighting battles thousands of miles form home, foraging for provisions or garrisoning town in...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 256 p. — (Great Battles). — ISBN: 978-0199663255. Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved huge armies and heavy losses on both sides. For those who fought in it - Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops - it was a murderous...
Savas Beatie, 2008. — 248 p. Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon, a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French...
Verso Books, 2008. — 587 p. In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–1814), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition — the guerrillas — and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war,...
London, U.K.: Pimlico, 2003. — 324 p. : maps. Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 342 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). This book explores the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Danish-Norwegian society and accounts for war experiences and the transformation of identities among the popular classes and educated élites alike.
The History Press, 2015. — 320 p. From bullet-pierced armor, skeletons of horses, medals, coins, and teeth of deceased soldiers — a rich trove of Waterloo treasure survives 200 years on Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can come closer to the reality experienced by the soldiers who fought at Waterloo —...
Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Military, 2017. — 265 p., illus. The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analysed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theatre of the conflict. Gareth Glover sets...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 256 p. More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars that forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, willful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated traditional...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 241 p. This is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published. It is based on the papers of its commander Sir Henry Clinton and it reveals for the first time the previously unrecognized vital role this division made in the defeat of Napoleon. It explains how the division was placed ahead of the main allied squares thus impeding...
London: Greenhill Books, 2005. — 365 p. Robert Goetz has produced a new history of the War of the Third Coalition, focusing in particular on the battle of Austerlitz. Goetz gives the Russian and Austrian side of the story as well as the French. This is a military history of the campaign so there are no in-depth discussions of the political and diplomatic aspects of the Third...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 272 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). Russia played a key part in the military campaigns and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon. At the same time the Napoleonic Wars affected almost every aspect of Russian life – economically, politically, socially and ideologically. This volume brings together the most important and new research on Russia and...
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2019. — 256 p. : 2 b&w figures, 5 maps. — (Atlantic Crossings series). An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion. A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize...
New York: A.L. Burton Company, 1895. — 551 p. The mighty genius of Napoleon has so overshadowed all those beneath him that they have not received their due praise, nor their proper place in history... But with weak men Napoleon never could have unsettled Europe, and founded and maintained his Empire. The Marshals who led his armies, and governed his conquered provinces, were...
London: Greenhill Books, 1998. - 396 pgs. Since 1815 it has been an article of faith among German historians that Wellington deceived Blücher during the opening phase of the campaign, promising quick support that was actually impossible because of the tardy concentration of the British forces. So assured, Blücher stood to fight at Ligny, got whipped and - except for d'Erlon's...
Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2003. - 128 p. Austerlitz, its sun, its plain, the victorious march, the pursuit, the frozen marshes, Davout’s role, the charge of the Guard chasseurs à cheval. This volume brings us a vivid, precise, step-by-step account of the battle. The fourth book in an excellent series from Histoire and Collections, Austerlitz covers the faous battle, the...
L.: Century, 2015. - 199 p. Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. In France, Waterloo is still an open wound. The French know they lost, but they can't believe it, and think they were robbed. Two centuries after...
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1973. — 226 pgs. The book looks at the Napoleonic Wars' Peninsular campaigns from the French side and emphasizes the poor command structure in the theater. It covers the entire war including overall strategy and constraints on French options. Individual battles aren't examined in great detail (but there are some maps of major battles). In...
Arms and Armour Press, 1984. - 151 p. The format of this work is to take each army chronologically through the period 1805 to 1815. The reader should be able to obtain an accurate organizational picture of that army at any given time in that span. If the exact regimental or battalion structure is not given for a particular year, one should assume that the structure had not...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 273 p. This new study by Christer Jorgensen addresses a much neglected field of study in the history of Scandinavia and the greater Baltic region during the Napoleonic Age. The book concentrates upon relations and the alliance between Britain and Sweden during the middle years of the war; years that encompassed the Austerlitz campaign, the...
Praeger, 2015. — 249 p. This carefully researched book provides an operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815 that includes the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time. • Integrates topics as diverse as naval warfare, maneuver warfare, compound warfare, and counterinsurgency • Covers major campaigns during the French Revolution and...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 384 pgs. At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy, he repeatedly detached large numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders, toward the capture of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 536 p. One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Blücher distinguished himself as a bold commander, but his actions at times...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 902 p. This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 498 p. This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 240 p. The military success achieved by the Duke of Wellington casts a long shadow over the history of the British army in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The popular account of Britain's military record in the great struggle against Napoleonic France is chiefly one of glorious victories, with Britain cast as the saviour of Europe...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 231 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the...
Botley, U.K.: Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 472 p., maps, illus., appendixes. — (General Military). Dismissive, conservative and aloof, Wellington treated his artillery with disdain during the Napoleonic Wars - despite their growing influence on the field of battle. Wellington's Guns exposes, for the very first time, the often stormy relationship between Wellington and his...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Books, 2016. — 241 p. ; 3 col. and 23 b&w plates, 17 maps. At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain's eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington's main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2017. — 322 p.; b & w and col. illus. Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide to his brigade commanders is a valuable contribution to this growing field. Ron McGuigan and Robert Burnham have...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 432 p. The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the wildness of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of Waterloo. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale across Europe, and over the entire period of the wars Napoleon led his Grand Arm¿e and his allies...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 298 p. After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody battle in a blizzard at Eylau on 8 February 1807, which decimated both armies. Operations resumed in the spring and on 14 June Napoleon wrecked the Russian field army at...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 329 p. On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's eventual...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Books, 2014. — 264 p., maps. As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 374 p. Placing the creation of Westphalia within the context of the larger German story of the Napoleonic Wars, this groundbreaking book offers the only complete history of Napoleon’s grand experiment to construct a model state in Germany. In 1807, in the wake of two years of victories over the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians,...
Bellona, 2009. — 237 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Leipzig (Lipsk) or Battle of the Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden, led by Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French....
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 384 p. The author covers one of the most explosive and most exciting periods of world history, spanning the time from the eruption of the French Revolution through the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815). These twenty-six years of history saw the birth of nationalism and Western democracy, economic crisis and political convulsion, the growth of...
Greenhill Books, 1996. — 314 p. Imperial Bayonets examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic tactics and a must read for anyone wanting to understand the fundamentals of period tactics. It...
Nafziger Publisher, 1993. — 96 p. This is a two-part study of the armies of Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War 1808-1815, with some pertinent information about the period immediately preceding. This is another of George Nafziger's slapdash efforts that exposes all of his usual strengths and weaknesses. Nafziger's major strong point is also his major weakness: he goes...
Praeger Publishers, 2002. — 408 p. Little has been written about the defense of the Kingdom of Northern Italy, and this is the first study in English to detail the two-year conflict (1813-1814) within the larger context of the Napoleonic Wars. The French commander responsible for the defense was Eugene Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon and son-in-law of the King of Bavaria....
Combined Publishing, 1991. — 289 p. A complete and thorough study of the Poles and Saxons military forces during the wars of Napoleon, including the organization, uniforms, and battlefield accounts. From the desperate actions of a handful of Poles defending a Spanish fortress to vast armies facing off to determine the fate of Europe, this lavishly illustrated work is researched...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword, 2003. — 288 p.; maps, illus. — (Pen & Sword Military Classics, no. 4). Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle. Wellington, his men said, "didn't know how to lose a battle". But Wellington himself admired his adversary. In Portugal and...
Savas Beatie, 2012. — 432 p. A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon,...
ABC-Clio, 1999. — 318 p. This illustrated A–Z encyclopedia provides easy access to information about the emperor Napoleon. Over 300 entries cover significant events, people, and other topics such as the principal Napoleonic campaigns, all the major battles including Waterloo and Austerlitz, Napoleon's most important generals and marshals, Josephine de Beauharnais, and the...
Barnsley, U.K.: Frontline Books, 2016. — 279 p. ; illus., maps. This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The Napoleon Options focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores in detail an...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. — 712 p. The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir Charles Oman's seven-volume history of the campaign is an unrivalled and...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2005. — 288 p.; maps, illus. Wellington's Peninsular War provides a concise and comprehensive account for use by both professional and amateur historians and which includes details of the battlefields as they are today and how to find and explore them. The Peninsular War (1808-1841) was part of the twenty year struggle against Napoleon...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 105 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 0199590966. The Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change–particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy–and...
Harper Perennial, 2006. — 144 p. June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington - the only time the two greatest...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1848851960. In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain...
Praeger, 2005. — 220 p. — ISBN: 0275980960 Poised to strike at England in the summer of 1805, Napoleon found himself facing a coalition of European powers determined to limit his territorial ambitions. Still, in less than one hundred days, Napoleon's armies marched from the English Channel to Central Europe, crushing the armies of Austria and Russia — the first step in his...
Basic Books, 2015. — 209 p. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of EuropeNapoleon’s forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 256 p. The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson’s history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivaled collection of the engineers’ letters and diaries in order to tell, in vivid detail, the story...
London, Greenhill Books, 1992. - 265 p. Jac Weller studies every move and countermove of the battle, recreating not only the actions and tactics of the two great leaders but the epic engagements and clashes between the troops themselves that were pivotal for the victory or defeat. The author also studies the related battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny. He takes the reader with him...
London, J. Lane's Company, 1908. - 371 p. An account that traces the progress of Napoleon's plans of conquest from their earliest stages in 1793 through to his defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, and the final collapse of the invasion plans in 1805. This book includes contemporary letters, prints and illustrations. First published in 1908, this is an in-depth study of the period...
Aus dem Englischen von Ruth Keen und Erhard Stölting C.H.Beck. — München: C.H.Beck, 2012. Napoleons Feldzug in Rußland war das vielleicht größte militärische Desaster aller Zeiten und eine menschliche Tragödie von beispiellosen Ausmaßen – das erste historische Beispiel eines totalen Krieges. Adam Zamoyski hat mit 1812 das meisterhafte Epos über die Hybris eines Eroberers, den...
Harper Perennial, 2004. — 672 p. Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months,...
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