Waterloo: The Aftermath
10 best books like Waterloo: The Aftermath (Paul O'Keeffe): The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England, 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee, In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815, Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar, The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches, Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 1605986445 |
In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and England. His art of attacking an opponent by making total war on civilians, as well as soldiers, created tremendous distrust and enmity between the two countries,...
| Author | Frank McLynn |
| ISBN | 0802142281 |
If not for the events of 1759, the entire history of the world would have been different. Called the "Year of Victories," 1759 was the fourth year of the Seven Years, or the French-and-Indian War and defeat of the French paved the way for the global hegemony of the English language. Guiding us through England's...
| Author | Adam Zamoyski |
| ISBN | 0060775181 |
In the wake of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, the French emperor's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. While the Treaty of Paris that followed Napoleon's exile in 1814 put an end to a quarter century...
| Author | John R. Elting |
| ISBN | 0306807572 |
This authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon's most powerful weapon—the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics,...
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 0374280908 |
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry,...
| Author | Rory Muir |
| ISBN | 0300186657 |
The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters,...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0060753625 |
In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's...
| Author | Brian MacArthur |
| ISBN | 0140176195 |
Great leaders of history have sought to take their followers to the promised land through the uplifting power of speech. Editor Brian MacArthur surveys the greatest oratory past and present. From Moses to Abraham Lincoln, he shows that great speeches can be placed alongside the work of artists, poets,...
| Author | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| ISBN | 1846684447 |
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of...
| Author | Ruth Harris |
| ISBN | 0805074716 |
The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the world
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice...
| Author | Brendan Simms |
| ISBN | 0465064825 |
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe—Napoleon's forces...
| Author | Philippe-Paul de Ségur |
| ISBN | 1590172825 |
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the way, the...
| Author | Juliet Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0007240775 |
I've read several of Gardiner's books before, and this one doesn't disappoint. She has a very readable style and manages to strike a good balance between the broad picture and the intimate details of people's lives. The Blitz was obviously had an enormous impact across the nation, but what really brings...
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0007137532 |
From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad...
An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research.
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic...
| Author | Mark Urban |
| ISBN | 0571216811 |
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets,...
The Rainborowes: One Family's Quest to Build a New England
| Author | Adrian Tinniswood |
| ISBN | 0465023002 |
The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of English America and, in the mother country, a vicious civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. It was an era of death and new beginnings,...
The Hundred Years War: A People's History
| Author | David Green |
| ISBN | 0300134517 |
The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways...
Now, one hundred years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians, and diplomats,...
| Author | Peter Marshall |
| ISBN | 0300170629 |
Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change,...
A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England
| Author | Gordon Corrigan |
| ISBN | 1605985791 |
In this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations.
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0156302861 |
Conceptually weak, yet readable, popular history of the British empire, this 3rd book in a 3-part series deals with the last years of the 19th century through the middle part of the 20 century, focusing mainly on geopolitical strategy, armed conflict, leadership figures, and popular sentiment within...
The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014
In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile...
