Books
– Battles for Scandinavia, Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1981, 208p, ISBN- 0809433974
– A Dictionary of Soldier Talk (with Cragg, Dan J., and Deal, Ernest L.), New York: Scribner, 1984, ISBN 0684178621
– The Superstrategists: great captains, theorists, and fighting men who have shaped the history of warfare, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985
– Swords around the Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée, New York: The Free Press, 1988
– Amateurs to Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812, Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991 (revised edition Da Capo Press: New York, 1996)
– Napoleonic Uniforms, vols. 1 and 2, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1993, ISBN 0 02 897115 9, vol. 3 (Vassals and Enemies, two vol. set), London; Greenhill Books (USA: Emperor’s Press), 2000, ISBN 1-883476-20-8)
– A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars (with Vincent J. Esposito), Revised edition, London: Greenhill Books; Pennsylvania, Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85367-346-3
Essays
– ‘Introduction’ in A History of the Peninsular War, by Sir Charles Oman, 7 vols., London: Greenhill Books, 1995-97, republication of 1st ed. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1902-1930
– ‘Introduction’ in The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and his Guard – A Study in Leadership, by Commandant Henry Lachouque (trans Anne S. K. Brown), London: Greenhill Press, 1997 ISBN 1-85367-264-5, reprint of second revised edition, London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978
– ‘What if the French had rallied after Waterloo?’, in The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars, (ed. Jonathan North), London: Greenhill Books, 2000, ISBN 1-85367-388-9