Captain Coignet: A Soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Waterloo
By: Jean-Roch Coignet
4.10
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Drafted into the French Army in 1799, Jean-Roch Coignet, would go onto serve in the Napoleonic camp…
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1. Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France, 1916–1919
By: Will Davies , None , E.P.F. Lynch
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of S… read more
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2. The Thirty Years War
By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood
4.18
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more
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"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War
3. Empire of Dragons
By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
3.80
Format: 401 pages, Paperback
This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last… read more
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"La muerte es, a fin de cuentas, el espectáculo más excitante en cualquier parte del mundo."-Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Empire of Dragons
"Cuando un pájaro ha permanecido en la jaula toda su vida, aunque se le abra la puerta no se va. El mundo exterior le da miedo."-Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Empire of Dragons
"El mar, en cambio, es el espejo de nuestros pensamientos, y por desgracia de los más profundos y melancólicos. Refleja aquello que hay oculto en las profundidades de nuestro espíritu, nuestros miedos…"-Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Empire of Dragons
4. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
By: Amin Maalouf
4.20
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and … read more
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"Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le suc…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qad…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"Pour l'envahisseur, apprendre la langue du peuple conquis est une habileté; pour ce dernier, apprendre la langue du conquérant est une compromission, voire une trahison. De fait, les Franj ont été no…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"La fierté de Maara, c'était d'être la patrie de l'une des plus grandes figures de la littérature arabe, Aboul-Ala al-Maari, mort en 1057. Ce poète aveugle, libre penseur, avait osé s'en prendre aux m…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
5. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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6. Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne: 1812-1813
By: Adrien Bourgogne
3.97
Format: 224 pages,
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7. Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
By: Robert Cowley , Rémy Cazals , Louis Barthas , Edward M. Strauss
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches… read more
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8. The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
By: Benjamin Randell Harris
3.65
Format: 432 pages,
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9. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
10. Ship of the Line
By: C.S. Forester
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in com… read more
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11. Sharpe's Sword (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadlies… read more
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12. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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13. Legion of the Damned
By: Sven Hassel
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Sven Hassel's iconic war novel about the Russian Front. 'An extraordinary book, which has captured … read more
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14. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
15. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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16. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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17. Trafalgar
By: Nicholas Best
4.51
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte planned to lead his Grande Armée to Britain, the only coun… read more
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18. Captain of the 95th (Rifles) an Officer of Wellington's Sharpshooters During the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars
By: Jonathan Leach
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonathan Leach saw some of the heaviest fighting of Napoleonic Wars. Serving under Wellington with… read more
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19. Captain Coignet: A Soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Waterloo
By: Jean-Roch Coignet
4.10
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Drafted into the French Army in 1799, Jean-Roch Coignet, would go onto serve in the Napoleonic camp… read more
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20. With Kitchener To Khartum [Illustrated Edition]
By: G.W. Steevens
4.20
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Illustrated with 15 mapsGeorge Warrington Steevens was among the most prominent journalists of the … read more
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