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Written by: John Knight
Published by: Westholme Publishing
Submitted By: Geraint
The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost…
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Written by: Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
Published by: Head of Zues
Submitted By: Gordon Doherty
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Their rivalry will change the world forever. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of…
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Written by: Naomi Novik
Published by: Harper Voyager
Submitted By: C.M. Farley
An adult fantasy series called TEMERAIRE about a British corps of dragons who participate in the Napoleonic conflict, including at Trafalgar where a British vessel named Temeraire participated. As fiction it offers an imaginative look at historical events.
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In North America’s first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and…
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Written by: Gordon C Rhea
Published by: LSU Press
Submitted By: Geraint
On to Petersburg follows the Union army’s movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the…
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Written by: James Arnol
Published by: Napoleon Books
Submitted By: Geraint
On September 29, 1806, Napoleon wrote to Marshal Soult: “War has not yet been declared; but things hang by a thread.” Although he did not want to fight Prussia, he informed Soult that if war came, his corps would be…
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Written by: David Rich
Published by: Adelaide Books
Submitted By: David Rich
(This review submitted by book’s author) In 1852 Richard Francis Burton, the legendary explorer and author, fell in love with a Persian woman while in the British Army. When her parents discovered the affair, they poisoned her. Devastated and vulnerable,…
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Written by: Stephen Petty
Published by: Chosen Man Media
Submitted By: Bernard Cornwell
A Rival for Sharpe? I’m delighted to announce the publication of Over the Hills to Talavera – a book for youngsters that tells the tale of George, an orphan who is raised in a workhouse, but escapes to become a…
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Written by: Adam Shoats
Published by: Penguin Canada
Submitted By: Jennifer Weterings
This wonderfully researched book gave me, a well Versed Canadian, a history lesson I needed. This book narrates the naissance of Canada from the time of the first Vikings to Modern Day. Wonderfully illustrating the radical, wild, willful, adventurous personalities…
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Written by: Philip Ball
Published by: Helion and Company
Submitted By: Geraint
Apart from the nursery rhyme ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’, Britain’s war against Revolutionary France is today a largely forgotten prelude to the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign in Flanders was Britain’s attempt to stem the power of the new…
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