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The second special Leonaur volume celebrating the genius of female ghost story writersFor those who know comparatively little about the fiction of the supernatural and weird it may be that, if they...

Two enthralling Lucknow diaries in one special edition The siege and relief of the Residency at Lucknow is one of the principal conflicts of the Great Mutiny and became an abiding symbol of the...

Two ladies in the struggle for Southern independence This unique Leonaur edition brings together two personal accounts of the American Civil War as it was experienced by Confederate ladies. This was...

Two resolute women-the first female 'warco' and the trader This special Leonaur two-in-one volume contains accounts by two resourceful and independent women who made their way through the often...

Three women in days of war Waterloo Days by Charlotte A. Eaton A Week at Waterloo by Magdalene de Lancey Juana's Story by Juana Smith Waterloo is arguably the most famous battle the world has known...

The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have...

Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire. In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its...

The consummate soldier of Wellington's Peninsular Army Guernsey born John Gaspard Le Marchant was an intellectual born before his time. He had a gift for languages, was a competent musician and a...

The consummate soldier of Wellington's Peninsular Army Guernsey born John Gaspard Le Marchant was an intellectual born before his time. He had a gift for languages, was a competent musician and a...

The battle that ended an era--by an eye witness This is a superb account of one of the pivotal battles of the Napoleonic Wars--Leipzig--the so called 'Battle of the Nations'. It was here in 1813,...

Soldier, artist, engineer, designer, writer, courtier This is a book by and about an exceptional and talented man, Lejeune epitomised the ideals of the age of revolutions and became an incomparable...

Soldier, special agent, prisoner, escapee -- the further adventures of Lejeune In this second volume of Lejeune's memoirs he is despatched by Napoleon to Spain, to investigate and report on the state...

A subalterns war in 'rifle green' against the French George Simmons, one of a large family, came from a comparatively humble background. Like so many of his countrymen of his time, he chose a...

The astounding experiences of a Union Scout The writer of this book, R. W. Surby, was a Union soldier who served with Colonel Benjamin Grierson's cavalry brigade as it undertook its great raid...

An artillery man's experience of the war between the states Carlton McCarthy, the author of this book, was a serving soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the great American Civil War. As a...

The first of two classic works of the untamed frontier The words of George Frederick Ruxton have come to epitomise the life of the far westerners, the mountain men and trappers who lived often short...

A lifetime at war with France When in 1337 King Edward III began his war to regain those lands across the English Channel claimed by France that he considered his own by ancestral right, he...

LIGHT BOB - FROM BOY SOLDIER TO VETERAN FIGHTING FOR WELLINGTON This is the story of a very young man who joined the British Army at the age of only 15 in 1804 and spent the following ten years of...

The Careers of Six Famous Royal Navy officers The age of sail-particularly as it related to the Royal Navy-has, perhaps been justifiably, dominated by the great Nelson. His victory at Trafalgar meant...

A first hand account of combat in the air by an American Observer The Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provided...

Machine Gunners in the trenches The First World War was waged on an industrial scale, utilising every conceivable advantage of invention and technology. Fought on land, in the skies and on and...

Machine Gunners in the desert The development of the rapidly firing machine gun had been gathering pace throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. By the time of the Great War it had...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was there By the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However,...

Recollections of Napoleon's French Mameluke Napoleon Bonaparte's adventure in the Middle East brought him in close contact with the Mamelukes-the dominant military caste of Egypt at the close of the...

The foot soldier during the American Civil WarThis book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, since it details, using text and diagrams, the drills of the...

The agony of Napoleon's family as Empire ends This is a riveting book. Those interested in-and to some degree knowledgeable about-the Napoleonic age know of the Emperor's inspired military prowess as...

A soldier of revolution The wars of the French Revolution are justifiably dominated by the masterful figure of Napoleon. His rapid rise to power, initially as general, then as First Consul and...

Marines to 95th (Rifles) - A military family at war with Napoleon This is the story of a Royal Marine who wanted to be a Rifleman. He achieved his ambition, but not before he saw action and captivity...

At war with Marlborough against the French There can be little doubt that John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, stands high in the pantheon of the greatest British military men. His campaigns,...

The glorious beginnings of a forgotten regiment Most regiments of the British Army are able to trace their history in an unbroken line to the date of their creation. Not so the British cavalry...