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Diaries, memoirs, and letters by officers of the Napoleonic era abound, but there are few reminiscences by common foot soldiers. This extraordinarily vivid and entirely ...
Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat "bi-polar." During the First World War, Italy sided with the Allies including ...
A History of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 Years of Conflict
From the chaos of the civil war to the ...
In August 1805, Napoleon abandoned his plans for the invasion of Britain and diverted his army to the Danube valley to confront Austrian and Russian ...
The word 'knight' conjures up images of gallant men in gleaming armor astride their noble steeds, galloping along in search of foes to fight or ...
On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Remi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last ...
The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced ...
When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule ...
Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published despatches ...
On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from ...
This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career.
Beginning in revolutionary ...
The story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their allied ...