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  • Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

    by Gerald Campbell ...
    The book is a collection of observations and reflections based on Campbell's time in the French trenches and fortifications. He describes the strategic importance of the region, where entrenched warfare and the devastating artillery bombardments left the land scarred and the soldiers deeply affected. From the battlefields of Verdun, one of the war’s longest and bloodiest engagements, to the ... Read more

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  • Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

    Echoes of Battle: A Soldier's Tale from the Fortress Frontier

    by Gerald Campbell ...
    In "Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France," Gerald Campbell offers a poignant exploration of the First World War'Äôs impact on one of its most significant battlegrounds. Through vivid descriptions and immersive first-person narratives, Campbell captures the raw emotions of soldiers and civilians alike, illustrating the haunting duality of heroism and ... Read more

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  • Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

    Enriched edition.

    by Gerald Campbell, Liam Alcott ...
    In "Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France," Gerald Campbell presents a vivid and evocative account of the First World War, focusing on the formidable landscape that shaped the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. The narrative, rich with descriptive imagery and personal reflections, immerses the reader in the emotional and psychological turmoil ... Read more

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  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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  • Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign

    by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. G.C.B. ...
    Napoleon wrote "Cavalry is useful before, during and after the battle"; and so it was with his final campaign of Waterloo. Few campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars are as instructive as to the use (and mis-use) of cavalry; from the lethal French cavalry at Quatre Bras, to the initially brilliant, but ultimately badly executed, British heavies charging at Waterloo itself. Sir Evelyn Wood himself had ... Read more

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  • 1812: Napoleon in Moscow

    by Paul Britten Austin ...
    This account of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers "a brilliant insight into men at war" (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon).Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have imagined the terrors and hardships to come.They'd been lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the ... Read more

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  • Marshal Ney At Quatre Bras

    New Perspectives on the Opening Battle of the Waterloo Campaign

    by Paul L. Dawson ...
    Fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Quatre Bras has been described as a tactical Anglo-allied victory, but a French strategic victory. The French Marshal Ney was given command of the left wing of Napoleons army and ordered to seize the vital crossroads at Quatre Bras, as the prelude to an advance on Brussels. The crossroads was of strategic importance ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Army in Russia

    The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812

    by Jonathan North ...
    In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted. In all he produced 77 colour plates of the campaign and they are as fresh and dramatic as the ... Read more

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  • History of the Waterloo Campaign

    The Classic Account of the Last Battle of the Napoleonic Wars

    by H.T. Siborne ...
    Series series The Napoleonic Library
    Captain William Siborne became an ensign in the 9th Foot in 1813 and was sent to France in 1815 as part of a battalion despatched to reinforce Wellingtons army. A notable topographer, after the events that year he was commissioned to create a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo, for which he carried out extensive research, writing to officers in the allied forces present to obtain information. ... Read more

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  • 1812 Napoleon I in Russia

    by Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin ...
    The following pages are not offered to the reader as a history of the invasion of Russia by Napoleon. They are but the statement of the basis of observation on which M. Verestchagin has founded his great series of pictures illustrative of the campaign. These pictures are now to be exhibited in this country, and the painter has naturally desired to show us from what point of view he has approached ... Read more

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  • Waterloo

    by Michael Corum, Andrew Uffindell ...
    Series series Battleground Napoleonic
    What better way to 'read' the momentous Battle of Waterloo than to follow the movements of the main military commanders on that fateful day (18 June 1815). For the British side of the action, we dog the footsteps, and learn about the decisions and actions of The Duke of Wellington. For the French perspective we follow both Napoleon Bonaparte and his right-hand man Marshal Ney, who in fact played ... Read more

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  • The Note-Book Of An Attaché - Seven Months In The War Zone [Illustrated Edition]

    by Eric Fisher Wood ...
    Includes 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps"When the war-storm suddenly loomed over Europe at the end of July, 1914, I was quietly studying architecture in...Paris. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 24th, the atmosphere of the city became so surcharged with excitement...Within a week I myself had been swept into the vortex of rushing events, from which I did not emerge until ... Read more

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