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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New): Mike Rapport The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New)
Mike Rapport
R154 R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Save R11 (7%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

The Napoleonic Wars have an 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 are frequently viewed in these places as the starting point of their modern histories. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Rapport provides a brief outline of the wars, introducing the tactics, strategies, and weaponry of the time. Presented in three parts, he considers the origins and course of the wars, the ways and means in which it was fought, and the social and political legacy it has left to the world today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder (Paperback): Honorã© De Balzac, Alexander Amphiteatrof Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder (Paperback)
Honorã© De Balzac, Alexander Amphiteatrof
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
General Orders. Spain and Portugal. Volume II. 1810. (Paperback): Adjutant Generals Office General Orders. Spain and Portugal. Volume II. 1810. (Paperback)
Adjutant Generals Office
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II (Paperback): John H. Gill 1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II (Paperback)
John H. Gill
R539 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R94 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 critical strategic choice - whether to pursue the injured Austrian main army into Bohemia or march directly for Vienna, the seat of Habsburg power. After electing to target Vienna, his troops defeated the Austrians in the brutal Battle of Ebelsberg, allowing him to enter the city on May 13th. However on the far side of the Danube, he then suffered a dramatic loss at the gruelling, two-day Battle of Aspern. While his Danube forces recovered from this setback, the Emperor cleared trouble from his strategic flanks. Gill describes in vivid detail the hopeful Habsburg invasion of Italy, led by the 27-year-old Archduke Johann, and the fierce French counter-offensive under Napoleon's stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais (also aged 27). In a series of encounters across Italy, de Beauharnais rebounded from initial defeat to advance triumphantly into Austrian territory, shattering and scattering Johann's army. In the wake of Aspern, while the Austrians vacillated, Napoleon gathered every man, horse and gun around Vienna, setting the stage for the gigantic spectacle of the Battle of Wagram, the final chapter in the story of the 1809 war.

General Orders. Spain and Portugal. Volume I. 1809. (Paperback): Adjutant Generals Office General Orders. Spain and Portugal. Volume I. 1809. (Paperback)
Adjutant Generals Office
R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wellington's Unsung Heroes - The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814 (Paperback): Carole Divall Wellington's Unsung Heroes - The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814 (Paperback)
Carole Divall
R894 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R177 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Scharnhorst - The Formative Years, 1755-1801 (Paperback): Charles Edward White Scharnhorst - The Formative Years, 1755-1801 (Paperback)
Charles Edward White
R1,137 R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Save R237 (21%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the first comprehensive studyof Gerhard Scharnhorst in any language. Other than the author's The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805 (1989), there exists no other work on Scharnhorst in English. Of the major German works, Das Leben des Generals von Scharnhorst (1869/71), written by Hanoverian historian Georg Heinrich Klippel,was a popular biography with no critical analysis. In keeping with the political correctness of his time, Klippel failed to include a single document from Scharnhorst's voluminous papers that was disparaging toward the social, political, and military cultures in Hanover. Seventeen years later, Prussian historian Max Lehmann published his study of Scharnhorst (1886/87), which corrected many of the flaws in Klippel's work, but failed to provide any critical analysis of Scharnhorst's modernization, especially as it applied to Prussia. Like Klippel, Lehmann complied with the political correctness of his time in Prussia and Germany. Rudolf Stadelmann, Scharnhorst: Schicksal und Geistige Welt (1952), is an incomplete fragment that offers some interesting insights. Scharnhorst: The Formative Years uses the previous German studies as a starting point to present many unpublished discoveries about his youth, his education and training, his extensive service in Hanover, and the modernization program Scharnhorst sought to implement in Hanover, and later realized in part in Prussia.

Wargames Terrain and Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars (Paperback): Tony Harwood Wargames Terrain and Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars (Paperback)
Tony Harwood
R473 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Any miniature wargame is greatly enhanced by realistic and evocative scenery and buildings, but commercial ready-made pieces can be expensive. Building your own can be a cost-effective and very rewarding alternative, another hobby in itself, but it can be hard to know where to start. Wargames Terrain and Buildings is a series of books aimed at giving wargamers the skills, techniques and guidance they need to create their own stunning and practical model buildings. In this volume, master modeller Tony Hardwood shares his years of experience and presents the reader with a wide range of projects for the Napoleonic era. With the aid of step-by-step photographs, he guides the reader through building and finishing each of these models, which are organized in three sections of increasing complexity and encompass a range of scales and different materials. Nine projects are included but the techniques and skills demonstrated along the way, along with valuable advice on tools, construction materials and paints, can be adapted and applied to a much wider range of structures to grace your battlefields.

Educating Middle Class Daughters - Private Girls' Schools in Copenhagen 1790-1820 (Hardcover): Carol Gold Educating Middle Class Daughters - Private Girls' Schools in Copenhagen 1790-1820 (Hardcover)
Carol Gold
R1,086 R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Save R145 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Denmark introduced compulsory education in 1814, the city of Copenhagen responsed by regulating the already existing private school system. Roughly half of the school age population went to some kind of school and of those the overwelming majority attended private schools, most of which were run by women. The book tells the story of these women, their schools and pupils on the 150 private schools from 1790-1820. Carol Gold's contention is that these private schools and their teachers were much better than is presently assumed in Danish historiography. The teachers were all literate; they could read and most of them could write. The education provided for girls ranged from the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic plus needlework in the beginner schools, to the "scientific" subjects of history, geography, natural sciences and foreign languages in the more advanced academies. Furthermore, the schools formed the basis of the Copenhagen school system which was established at the b

The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns - The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2 (Paperback): Carl Von... The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns - The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Carl Von Clausewitz, Nicholas Murray; Edited by Christopher Pringle
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings. The others, historical analyses of the wars that roiled Europe from 1789 through 1815, informed and shaped Clausewitz's military thought, so they offer invaluable insight into his dialectical, often difficult theoretical masterwork. Among these historical works, one of the most important is Der Feldzug von 1799 in Italien und der Schweiz, which covers an important phase of the French Revolutionary Wars. The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns focuses mainly on the campaigns in Switzerland, where the cracks that finally fractured the alliance between Russia and Austria and led to the defeat of the Second Coalition first opened. Moving from strategy to battle scene to analysis, this first English translation of volume 6 of Clausewitz's collected works nimbly conveys the character of Clausewitz's writing in all its registers: the brisk, often powerful description of events as they unfolded and the critical reflections on strategic theory and its implications. The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns features Suvorov's astonishing march through the St. Gotthard Pass and major actions such as the Second Battle of Zurich and the Battle of Mannheim. The nature of the campaign highlighted the contrast between the opposing armies' different strengths and weaknesses and the problems of fighting as part of a coalition. This book will expand readers' experience and understanding of not only this critical moment in European history but also the thought and writings of the modern master of military philosophy.

Confronting Napoleon - Levin Von Bennigsen's Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807. Volume I - Pultusk to Eylau... Confronting Napoleon - Levin Von Bennigsen's Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807. Volume I - Pultusk to Eylau (Paperback)
Alexander Mikaberidze, Paul Strietelmeier
R755 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Napoleon'S Stolen Army - How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic (Paperback): John Marsden Napoleon'S Stolen Army - How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic (Paperback)
John Marsden
R753 R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the story of a Spanish army, commanded by the Marques de La Romana, which was sent to Denmark by Napoleon in 1807, whilst France and Spain were allies bound by the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1796. When relations between the two countries broke down in May 1808 they were soon at war with each other, and La Romanas host became, in effect, a captive army in the hands of the French. When Spain looked to forge an alliance with Britain against her erstwhile ally, they found the British government only too eager to help. The Royal Navy's dominant presence in the Baltic provided a ready opportunity to seal the new alliance and, once the political groundwork had been laid, plans for a daring rescue of the entrapped Spaniards by Vice Admiral Keats' squadron were drawn up. However, whilst efforts were being made by the British to accumulate and prepare a sufficient amount of shipping to carry out the operation, difficulties soon arose in making contact with La Romana in order to convey to him the intentions of the Spanish and British high commands. This almost led to disaster, and the whole operation was saved only by some remarkable strokes of fortune, and the magnificent leadership provided by Keats and La Romana. Until now this remarkable and little-known story has had little coverage in the various histories written about the Peninsular War, and what has been said about it in the Anglosphere has been confined to a description of events taken almost solely from a British perspective. Now, with access to a comprehensive collection of documents in the Spanish archives, it is possible to tell the story of the Spanish contribution to the successful operation in the Baltic, when the greater part of La Romana's army was evacuated from Danish Baltic territory during the summer of 1808. Due to circumstance and bad fortune, a significant part of the Spanish army was left behind during the Royal Navy's action, and there is an interesting story told about what became of these men, related via the personal accounts left by two of the soldiers who did not return to Spain with La Romana.

The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier - The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot (Hardcover): William... The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier - The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot (Hardcover)
William Brown; Edited by Steve Brown
R655 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R125 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War - a regiment that was one of Wellington's longest-serving and most valiant in that turbulent era, a proud member of Sir Thomas Picton's 'Fighting' Third Division. William was born in Kilmarnock in 1788, the son of a poor cobbler, but seems to have been given a good education since the narrative is clear and lively, with many learned literary references. Like many young men, William Brown originally volunteered into the militia, Britain's second-line army intended for home defence only. And like a goodly percentage of these young men, he found that the life more-or-less agreed with him, and willingly took the bounty on offer to volunteer into the regular army a few weeks after Wellington's victory at Talavera. In the next five years he served at Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madrid, Vittoria, Orthez, and Toulouse, and his descriptions of these actions provide worthy additions to our knowledge of these great battles. William seems to have been generally a reliable soldier, often 'on command' doing ancillary regimental service involving a degree of trust, including service as an officer's batman. His outrage at the antics of his fellow-soldiers in the sack of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz is palpable. Nonetheless, he occasionally seems to have slipped into questionable behaviour and comes across in the text as a bit of a 'likeable rogue'. His romantic pursuits also get plenty of coverage in the text. William's pen-portraits of commanders such as Picton, Kempt, Pakenham, and Brisbane are revealing, and he was not slow in criticising his senior battalion officers or their actions; nor indeed is the Duke of Wellington above William's barbed criticism. Maps are provided to allow the reader to understand the route travelled within Portugal and Spain by William and the 45th Regiment in those turbulent years, and the whole text is annotated by historian Steve Brown, an expert on the 45th and its deeds in the Napoleonic era.

Waterloo: Rout and Retreat (Hardcover): Andrew W. Field Waterloo: Rout and Retreat (Hardcover)
Andrew W. Field
R774 R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Save R140 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 carry the story through to the army's disbandment in late 1815\. Many French officers and soldiers wrote more about the retreat than they did about the catastrophe of Waterloo itself. Their recollections give a fascinating insight to the psyche of the French soldier. They also provide a first-hand record of their experiences and the range of their reactions, from those who deserted the colours and made their way home, to those who continued to serve faithfully when all was lost. Napoleon s own flight from Waterloo is an essential part of the narrative, but the main emphasis is on the fate of the beaten French army as it was experienced by eyewitnesses who lived through the last days of the campaign.

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India (Hardcover): W. S. R. Hodson Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India (Hardcover)
W. S. R. Hodson
R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (Hardcover): A.T. Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (Hardcover)
A.T. Mahan
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gulf and Inland Waters (Hardcover): The Gulf And Inland Waters The Gulf and Inland Waters (Hardcover)
The Gulf And Inland Waters
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.I (Hardcover): A.T. Mahan Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.I (Hardcover)
A.T. Mahan
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.II (Hardcover): A.T. Mahan Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.II (Hardcover)
A.T. Mahan
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Vol. II (Hardcover): Francis Duncan History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Vol. II (Hardcover)
Francis Duncan
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. I (Hardcover): Francis Duncan History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. I (Hardcover)
Francis Duncan
R1,368 Discovery Miles 13 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Vol. II (Hardcover): T.W. J. Connolly History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Vol. II (Hardcover)
T.W. J. Connolly
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gunnery in 1858 - Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms (Hardcover): Greener Gunnery in 1858 - Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms (Hardcover)
Greener
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - from Marathon (Hardcover): Waterloo by Creasy The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - from Marathon (Hardcover)
Waterloo by Creasy
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the 2nd Dragoons Royal Scots Greys (Hardcover): Edward Almack The History of the 2nd Dragoons Royal Scots Greys (Hardcover)
Edward Almack
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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