The story of John Churchill's rise from poverty to become the Duke of Marlborough, the most brilliant general of his time.

Marlborough: The Hero Of Blenheim

History

Hussey, John

Europe

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal Shortlisted for Military History Monthly's "Book of the Year" Award The first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250,000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the ‘undeclared war’, and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleon’s operational plan is analyzed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it). Accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June, and the volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815. Volume I: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras

Greenhill Books

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Blücher’s intentions for the battle, Wellington’s choice of site, his reasons for placing substantial forces at Hal, the placement of Napoleon’s artillery, who authorized the French cavalry attacks, Grouchy’s role on 18 and 19 June, Napoleon’s own statements on the Garde’s formation in the final attack, and the climactic moment when the Prussians reached Wellington’s troops near la Belle Alliance. Close attention is paid to the negotiations that led to the capitulation of Paris, and subsequent French claims. The allegations of Las Cases and later historians that Napoleon’s surrender to Captain Maitland of the Bellerophon amounted to entrapment are also examined. After a survey of the peace settlement of 1815, the book concludes with a masterly chapter reviewing the whole story of the 1815 campaign.

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal Shortlisted for Military History Monthly's "Book of the Year" Award The first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250,000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the ‘undeclared war’, and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleon’s operational plan is analyzed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it). Accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June, and the volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume I - From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Blücher’s intentions for the battle, Wellington’s choice of site, his reasons for placing substantial forces at Hal, the placement of Napoleon’s artillery, who authorized the French cavalry attacks, Grouchy’s role on 18 and 19 June, Napoleon’s own statements on the Garde’s formation in the final attack, and the climactic moment when the Prussians reached Wellington’s troops near la Belle Alliance. Close attention is paid to the negotiations that led to the capitulation of Paris, and subsequent French claims. The allegations of Las Cases and later historians that Napoleon’s surrender to Captain Maitland of the Bellerophon amounted to entrapment are also examined. After a survey of the peace settlement of 1815, the book concludes with a masterly chapter reviewing the whole story of the 1815 campaign.

Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates: Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy

Countyvise Ltd

Liverpool the Confederate Years

John Gibson R.A.: The World of the Master Sculptors

Countyvise

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Marlborough: The Hero Of Blenheim

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815. Volume I: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume I - From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates: Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy

Liverpool the Confederate Years

John Gibson R.A.: The World of the Master Sculptors