Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon (Pocket)
avRory Muir
ISBN: 9780300082708 - UTGIVEN: 200004What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries and letters of the time, this book explores what actually happened in battle and how the participant[...]
Salamanca 1812 (Pocket)
avRory Muir
ISBN: 9780300186741 - UTGIVEN: 2001-1222 July 1812. Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first advance, British forces under Wellington's command have spent the last four days manoeuvring and retreating from the French army. Patient and cautious, Wellington is determined not to make a fatal mistake. He glimpses a moment of opportunity [...]
Wellington (Inbunden)
avRory Muir
ISBN: 9780300187861 - UTGIVEN: 2015-06Wellington's momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington's achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool's cabinet, and became prime mini[...]
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815 (Pocket)
avRory Muir
ISBN: 9780300197570 - UTGIVEN: 1996-04This account of the final years of Britain's long war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France places the conflict in a new - and wholly modern - perspective. Rory Muir looks beyond the purely military aspects of the struggle to show how the entire British nation played a part in the victory. His[...]
Wellington (Pocket)
avRory Muir
ISBN: 9780300205480 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a pol[...]
