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  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    by Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    Series Book 1 - Command
    Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.Throughout the first decade of the 19th century he won battle after battle by wielding the Grande Armée decisively against the other powers of Europe – Prussia, Austria and Russia. Yet his fortunes changed in 1812 when ... Read more

    R260,92

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  • A Short History of World War I

    by James L. Stokesbury ...
    A concise history covering the causes and the battles of the world's first global conflict, "the war to end all wars."World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground—places like Ypres and the Somme—was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain ... Read more

    R240,91 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First World War

    by John Keegan ...
    The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War – the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, ... Read more

    R368,45

  • The First World War

    An Illustrated History

    by Professor A J P Taylor ...
    A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and ... Read more

    R184,10

  • Waterloo 1815: Battle Story

    Battle Story

    by Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    One of the most decisive battles in military history, Waterloo saw the culmination of a generation of war to bring a definitive end to French hegemony and imperial ambitions in Europe. Both sides fought bitterly and Wellington later remarked that 'it was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life'.In this bloody engagement, more than 20,000 men were lost on the battlefield that day by each ... Read more

    Was R152,25 Now R135,23 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Armies of the Napoleonic Wars

    by Gregory Fremont-Barnes ...
    This authoritative military reference provides detailed analysis of the various armed forces that fought in the Napoleonic Wars.The Napoleonic Wars were some of the most devastating and consequential in modern European history. Yet for all the attention paid to these dramatic conflicts, little focus is given to the composition, organization and fighting efficiency of the armies who fought them. ... Read more

    R214,69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterloo

    A New History of the Battle and its Armies

    by Gordon Corrigan ...
    Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial France and her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory for the Allied armies of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians led by the stalwart Blücher, it ... Read more

    R169,15

  • Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871, Volume 1

    The Campaign of Sedan: Helmuth Von Moltke and the Overthrow of the Second Empire

    by Quintin Barry ...
    The first volume of this comprehensive study of the Franco-Prussian War presents a detailed account of Germany Confederation's decisive victory over France.In the first part of this two-volume military history, Quintin Barry examines the war against the French Imperial Army waged by the armies of the German Confederation, directed by that supreme military mind, Helmuth von Moltke. Barry places ... Read more

    R267,71 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Napoleon Options

    Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars

    by Jonathan North ...
    Compelling fictional scenarios exploring how the Napoleonic Wars could have gone very differently.This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores in detail an alternative sequence of ... Read more

    R346,37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of the First World War

    Land, Sea and Air, 1914 - 1918

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated.A Short History of the First World War tells the story of this cataclysmic event describing the background to war, the international rivalries and conflicts of the previous decades that led to the nations of Europe forming ... Read more

    R169,15 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grand Battery

    A Guide & Rules for Napoleonic Wargames

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    How would you have fared as one Napoleon's marshals, or in command of a division of redoutable British redcoats under Wellington? Grand Battery offers you the chance to find out. This book includes all the rules you need to play miniature wargames set in the Napoleonic Wars, plus plenty of useful background information you need to get started.The book provides a concise historical overview of the ... Read more

    R143,16 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Important for the Generals

    Losing and Winning the First World War

    by Allan Mallinson ...
    ‘War is too important to be left to the generals’ snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front.One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be ... Read more

    R239,42