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  • Battle Stories — The English Throne and the Fate of Europe 3-Book Bundle

    Hastings 1066 / Bosworth 1485 / Waterloo 1815

    Series series Battle Story
    Three battles that shook the British Isles and changed the course of world history. Three renowned experts each take up one crucial day when the future of the throne, or Europe itself, hung in the balance.Hastings 1066In 1066, a foreign invader won the throne of England in a single battle and changed not only the history of the British Isles, but that of Christendom, forever. Harold Godwinson’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth

    by Mike Ingram ...
    Series Book 10 - Retinue to Regiment
    This is the story of two very different men, Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, and Henry Tudor and how they met in battle on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field.The Battle of Bosworth, along with Hastings and Naseby, is one of the most important battles in English history and, on the death of Richard, ushered in the age of the Tudors. This book, using contemporary sources, examines ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bosworth 1485

    by Mike Ingram ...
    Series Book 6 - Battle Story
    Bosworth marked the end of the reign of Richard III and the rise of the Tudor dynasty.Bosworth Field saw the two great dynasties of the day clash on the battlefield: the reigning House of York, led by Richard III, against the rising House of Tudor, led by Henry Tudor, soon to become Henry VII.On August 22, 1485, this penultimate battle in the War of the Roses was fought with the might of the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Iron Duke (Text Only)

    In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.Seeing Wellington as a remarkable figure, Holmes follows his career from the ruins of his family seat in Ireland to the plains of India where Wellesley first gained his reputation as a brilliant commander, to the horrors of the Peninsular War and Waterloo.Combining his ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Alexander II

    King of Scots 1214-1249

    By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed aggressor, Alexander II has been praised or vilified by past historians but has rarely been viewed in the round. This book explores the king's successes and failures, offering a fresh assessment of his contribution to the making of Scotland as a nation. It lifts the focus from an introspective national ... Read more

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  • Culloden

    Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French ... Read more

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  • Cromwell's War Machine

    The New Model Army, 1645–1660

    by Keith Roberts ...
    A historian of the English Civil Wars shares a fascinating study of the seventeenth century New Model Army, examining its formation, tactics, and significance.The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cochrane: The Fighting Captain

    by Robert Harvey ...
    The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane as the basis for Jack Aubrey, hero of his much-loved series of naval novels.Cochrane became a household name when in 1800 he took command of the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Bannockburn

    by Peter Reese ...
    "An admirably vivid account of the Scots' greatest victory over the English": the 14th century Battle of Bannockburn ( The Scotsman, UK).Scotland, 1314. On a marsh-fringed plain south of Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led the Scottish army in a singularly devastating victory over the English. Bannockburn was Scotland's greatest battlefield triumph in the First War of Scottish Independence ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • England Versus Scotland

    Series series The Great British Battles
    Delve into a thousand years of battle and rebellion with this vivid chronicle of warfare between Scotland and England—with battlefield information.Today, England and Scotland limit their fierce rivalry to the football field, but as historian Rupert Matthews demonstrates in this engaging volume, this was not always the case. Before the eighteenth century Act of Settlement in the Eighteenth Century, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marlborough

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 10 - Command
    John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history.Using his great charm and diplomatic skills he was able to bind troops from various European states into a cohesive army that won a string of victories over the French armies of King Louis XIV, the first of which was perhaps his most spectacular triumph – the battle of Blenheim. Other great victories followed, but ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD