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Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792- 1914. Paperback

by Geoffrey Wawro

256 pages, 10 line drawings. 1999. Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 traces war in Europe from the French Revolution to the eve of the First World War.

The Spanish Tercios 1536-1704. Men-at-Arms 481

Author: Ignacio J.N. López, Illustrator: Gerry Embleton

Paperback; July 2012; 48 pages

German Swords and Sword Makers: Edged Weapon Makers from the 14th to the 20th Centuries. Hardcover

Richard H. Bezdek

xi, 235 pages, 300 illustrations, bibliography. 2000. Rulers of Germany, Blade Markings, Sword-Making Centers, Early Teutonic Sword Makers, Arms Manufactories, Listing of Sword Makers, Armourers, Rulers of Austria, of Austrian Sword Makers, of Austrian Armourers, Sword Maker Marks, Swords of Prussia, of Bavaria, of Wurttemberg

Balaclava 1854. The Charge of the Light Brigade

John Sweetman

96 pages. This book examines in detail the crucial battle of Balaclava, including: the attack on the redoubts; the action of "the thin red line" in which an assortment of about 700 British troops, some invalids, were abandoned by their Turkish allies; the subsequent charge of the Heavy Brigade; and the most famous part of the battle: the infamous charge of the Light Brigade.

First Bull Run 1861. The South's First Victory

Author: Alan Hankinson

96 pages. The author investigates the personalities of the principle commanders on both sides and examines the opposing armies, showing how the widely varying uniforms of different units caused mistakes of identity which effected the battle at crucial points. Weapons, intelligence and the almost universal inexperience of troops on both sides are all discussed, helping to explain events in the battle itself

Culloden 1746. The Highland Clan's Last Charge.

Peter Harrington

96 pages. Peter Harrington examines all aspects of the battle, including its background, the earlier Highlander victories, the men and commanders of both sides, and the massacre that took place in its aftermath

Zulu War 1879. Twilight of a Warrior Nation

by Ian Knight & Ian Castle

96 pages. In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they engineered a war. The early campaigns went terribly wrong, with the decisive Zulu victory at Isandlwana. Ultimately however, the British won the war.

Chickamauga 1863. The River of Death

James R. Arnold

96 pages. On 19th September the Confederates attacked the Union army along Chickamauga creek south of Chattanooga. On the second day of bloody fighting the entire Union right collapsed and the army retreated headlong for Chattanooga, all except General George H. Thomas' Corps who fought on doggedly until nightfall

Khartoum 1885. General Gordon's Last Stand

Donald Featherstone

96 pages. Proclaiming himself the long-expected Madhi he preached that the Sudan was to be purged of its Egyptian oppressors. Drawn in by the Egyptian failure to deal with the situation, the British sent General Gordon to organise an evacuation. On reaching Khartoum however, General Gordon believed, incorrectly, that the Madhi could be reasoned with. Instead of negotiating, the Madhi besieged the town for 317 days.

Vicksburg 1863. Grant Clears the Mississippi

Alan Hankinson

96 pages. The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city.

Vicksburg 1863. Trade Edition. Same book as Campaign 26, other cover

Alan Hankinson

96 pages. The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city.

Tel El-Kebir 1882. Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt

Donald Featherstone

96 pages. In 1881 the Egyptian army mutinied from the Khedive of Egypt, and forced him to appoint Said Ahmed Arabi as Minister of War. In March 1882 Arabi was made a Pasha and from this time on acted as a dictator. Impassioned demands of Arabi that the foreigner be driven out of Egypt and massacres of Christians prompted an armed British response, first in the form of a naval bombardment of Alexandria, and then as an expeditionary force under Lieutenant-General Wolseley.

New Orleans 1815. Andrew Jackson Crushes the British

Tim Pickles

96 pages. The conflict that broke out in 1812 seemed born of an almost subconscious desire for a war. In one last attempt to break the deadlock the British sent Major-General Sir Edward Pakenham to capture New Orleans. The troops he commanded were elite, veteran regiments. Andrew Jackson, leading the defenders, commanded a mixed force including militia, free Negro battalions, Indians and a group of local pirates.

Antietam 1862. The Civil War's Bloodiest Day

Norman S Stevens

This title examines the build-up to Hooker's attack, and details the famous clashes at Bloody Lane and Burnside Bridge.

Plassey 1757. Clive of India's Finest Hour

by Peter Harrington

Boston 1775. The Shot Heard Around the World

Brendan Morrissey

Colenso 1899. The Boer War in Natal

by Ian Knight

In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet the British army was destined to be humiliated by poorly-organised citizen militia consisting of men whom the British professionals despised as back-wood farmers. In one week in December 1899 the farmers of the South African Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal inflicted three serious reverses on British troops

Little Big Horn 1876. Custer's Last Stand

by Peter Panzeri

The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 July 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the Native Americans over the United States military. Disobeying orders, Custer followed a trail to a large encampment of Indians, split his command into three groups and attacked. In the resulting chaos Custer and more than half the troops under his command were killed

Rorke's Drift 1879. 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole'

Ian Knight

Pavia 1525. The Climax of the Italian Wars

Author: Angus Konstam. Illustrator: Graham Turner

In these campaigns France's toughest adversary was the Spanish army, and when the thrones of Spain and Austria were combined in 1519, it altered the whole nature of the Italian Wars. In the titanic clash at Pavia the French were smashed by the Imperial army, King Francis I captured and the cream of his nobility slaughtered

Majuba 1881. The Hill of Destiny

Ian Castle

Yorktown 1781. The World Turned Upside Down

by Brendan Morrissey

By 1781 Britain's struggle to contain the rebels in her American colonies had reached an inglorious stalemate. Six years on from the British defeat by the New England militia at Boston, George Washington's rebuilt Continental Army now systematically began to seek out and destroy British forces even if protected by seemingly impregnable defences.

Inkerman 1854. The Soldiers' Battle. Campaign 051

Author: Patrick Mercer. Illustrator: Graham Turner

San Juan Hill 1898. America's Emergence as a World Power

Author: Angus Konstam. Illustrator: David Rickman

Saratoga 1777: Turning Point of a Revolution

Lützen 1632. Climax of the Thirt Years War

by Richard Brzezinski

Ticonderoga 1758. Montcalm's Victory against All Odds.

by René Chartrand

On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting party and in the fierce skirmish that followed Lord Howe, the darling of the army, was shot through the heart. The army was shattered at the loss, but Abercromby went to pieces.

Louisbourg 1758. Wolfe's First Siege.

René Chartrand

Edgehill 1642. First Battle of the English Civil War

Keith Roberts

Peking 1900. The Boxer Rebellion

Peter Harrington

Armada Campaign 1588. The Great Enterprise Against England

With the help of battle plans and bird's eye views of the action, leading historian Angus Konstam considers many of the intriguing questions surrounding the campaign, concluding with details of how the Armada's disastrous return voyage around Scotland and Ireland became one of the most tragic episodes in maritime history

Alamo 1836. Santa Anna's Texas Campaign

On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San Antonio, Texas, and slaughtered the garrison of around 200 Texans. It was not a large battle but its significance vastly outweighed its size for the name of the mission was the Alamo. Less than two months later Santa Anna's force was smashed at San Jacinto by a volunteer army whose battle cry was "Remember the Alamo"

Kolin 1757. Frederick the Great's first defeat.

Author: Simon Millar. Illustrator: Adam Hook

In May of 1757 Frederick the Great invaded Bohemia, smashed an Austrian army outside Prague and bottled it up in the city. The Empress Maria Theresa despatched Marshal Daun with 60,000 men to save the Empire's second city. Frederick had won a string of victories over the Austrians and was convinced his men would always triumph. Although outnumbered he attacked, but the Austrians were waiting. His army was defeated and forced to withdraw. As his veterans commented, 'they were not the same old Austrians at all'

Second Manassas 1862. Robert E Lee's greatest victory

"There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon" wrote Confederate General Pender of the Second Manassas campaign in which the gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, came as close as he ever would to exterminating his Northern enemies. In so doing, Lee established himself as the South's pre-eminent military commander and the Army of Northern Virginia as it's most powerful weapon.

Hampton Roads 1862:  First clash of the Ironclads

Author: Angus Konstam. Illustrator: Adam Hook

Culloden Moor 1746. The death of the Jacobite cause

by Stuart Reid. Illustrator: Gerry Embleton

In this modern and highly detailed account the author combines a thorough knowledge of 18th century tactics, an intimate knowledge of the battlefield itself and a scandalously underused archive of contemporary material from both sides to provide a balanced and accurate account of this controversial encounter.

Guilford Courthouse 1781. Lord Cornwallis's ruinous victory

Author: Angus Konstam. Illustrator: Adam Hook

When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his invasion of North Carolina in early 1781, his objective was to destroy General Nathaniel Greene’s American army. At Guilford Courthouse on 15 March 1781 the two armies met. In a desperately hard-fought battle the small but professional British army succeeded in fighting its way through three separate lines of American troops. Cornwallis lost over a quarter of his command.

Isandlwana 1879: The Great Zulu Victory

Author: Ian Knight. Illustrator: Adam Hook

The battle of Isandlwana fought on 22 January 1879 was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Victorian era.

Rossbach and Leuthen 1757: Prussia's Eagle Resurgent

Author: Simon Millar. Illustrator: Adam Hook

By the autumn of 1757 Frederick the Great was beset by enemies. The French had invaded the territory of his Anglo-Hanoverian allies, a Franco-Imperial army was threatening Saxony, an Austrian army 110,000-strong had marched into Silesia and even the ponderous Russians had moved against him. Then within a month Frederick transformed his fortunes

Lepanto 1571. The greatest naval battle of the Renaissance

Author: Angus Konstam. Illustrator: Tony Bryan

2003. For much of the 16th century the Mediterranean was a battleground between Christians and Muslims. A decisive battle between two large galley fleets was expected to decide the fate of the entire Mediterranean basin. In August 1571, an Ottoman fleet of some 235 galleys encountered the slightly smaller Christian fleet of the Holy League

First Newbury 1643: The turning point

Parliament armies had been crushed at Adwalton Moor and Roundway Down and the Royalists had taken Bristol. When they summoned Gloucester to surrender on 10 August the city’s only hope was a Parliament relief army. With the citizens of London so firmly committed to Parliament’s cause and the King’s cavalry no longer invincible the balance of power had shifted irretrievably.

Marston Moor 1644. The beginning of the end

Author: John Tincey. Illustrator: Graham Turner

The Royalists in the North were forced onto the defensive and besieged in York. In a bold march Prince Rupert outmanoeuvred his enemies and relieved York without a shot being fired. However, when Rupert met the allied army in battle on Marston Moor on 2 July his cavalry was defeated by Cromwell’s Ironsides who then turned on the Royalist infantry. The result was a hard-fought but catastrophic defeat; the Royalist army was crushed and their forces driven from the north of England.

Quebec 1759. The battle that won Canada

Author: Stuart Reid. Illustrator: Gerry Embleton

In this book Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army’s consummate professionals literally beat the King’s enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.

Auldearn 1645. The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish campaign

Author: Stuart Reid. Illustrator: Gerry Embleton

Stuart Reid details the remarkable sequence of victories at Tippermuir, Aberdeen, Inverlochy, Auldearn and Kilsyth that left Montrose briefly in the ascendant in Scotland. However, his decisive defeat and surrender at Philiphaugh finally crushed the Royalist cause in Scotland.

Zorndorf 1758. Frederick faces Holy Mother Russia.

by Simon Millar. Illustrator: Adam Hook

2003. In January 1758 Count Wilhelm Fermor marched into East Prussia at the head of 45,000 Russians. This book details the bitter day-long battle in which the Russian infantry refused to buckle.

Quebec 1775: The American invasion of Canada

Brendan Morrisey

In this book Brendan Morrissey details the events of this ferocious struggle whose results would have such momentous consequences at Saratoga in 1777

Author: Stephen Turnbull. Illustrator: Wayne Reynolds

2003. In the space of 12 years, between 1553 and 1564, this valley deep in the mountains of central Japan witnessed no less than five battles between two of Japan’s greatest warlords. Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin were both descended from great families and were highly skilled tacticians. Both had taken the tonsure and risen to high rank in their respective Buddhist sects. When Shingen attempted to seize control of Shinano province they were set on a collision course.