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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 —...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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".
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...