Publications

A attempt to follow the movements of the main military commanders during the Battle of Waterloo, notably Wellington, Napoleon and Ney.

This books takes detailed looks the battles of Turcoing, Castiglione, Marengo, Eylau, Salamanca and Waterloo along with the two sea battles of Algeciras. The tactics and strategy of land and sea warfare are explored and discussed.

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan was the officer held responsible for the dramatic night escape of the French garrison from Almeida, for which he incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington. Drawing on letters and papers of the Bevan family and other contemporary sources, this book attempts to rehabilitate Bevan, shifting some of the blame […]

Richard Hopton provides a new discussion of the long-overlooked defeat of Napoleon's forces by General Sir John Stuart at Maida, southern Italy in 1806, largely only known from the London borough of Maida Vale.

The Crimean War was significant event of the time. The battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the siege of Sevastopol, Florence Nightingale at Scutari with her lamp are all charged with memory. To contemporaries, it was not the Crimean War but 'The Great War with Russia'. A mere thirty years after the […]

A detailed account of how the British Army was organised, who commanded it, and how it functioned in the field during the Peninsular War. Focusing principally on infantry, cavalry and artillery, including foreign units in British pay, it provides a detailed and comprehensive order of battle. Doctrine, training, tactics and equipment are discussed in depth, […]

This book is a description of the regiments of the Light Division in Wellington's Peninsular army. It explains the evolution and tactics of these self-consciously élite soldiers, trained as they were to fight with initiative and independence on the exposed edges of the marching army. It recounts the campaigns in which they fought and illustrates […]

In this book Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period. He examines Napoleon's own artillery as well as that employed by his enemies, and he evaluates the gunners' contribution to warfare in the period. By looking at particular battles in detail, Kevin Kiley shows just how the effective employment of artillery […]

 From the publisherFrom 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck so much that he called her 'The only man in Paris'. In sharp contrast to Queen Victoria, who met and admired her, and whose power was […]

This book presents more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, for which Gareth Glover has provided background historical information.Originally sent to, and at the request of, Captain W. Siborne, then in the process of building his famous model of the battle, these letters have remained unread in the […]