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1	Sharpe's Enemy more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Star-Spangled Banner more books like this by Amy Winstead, Bob Dacey (Illustrator), Debra Bandelin (Illustrator) add to wishlist First-time author Amy Winstead skilfully weaves a historically accurate, yet fictional account of Francis Scott Key and the British bombarding of Fort McHenry. The story is told from the perspective of a young boy and his brother who accidentally became ensnared in the intrigue of the historic night and culminates in the writing of our national ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.48!
3	The Spanish Bride: A Novel in Which Brigade-Major Harry Smith Unexpectedly and Impulsively Acquires a Bride... more books like this by Georgette Heyer add to wishlist With the same ardor he so frequently displays in battle, Brigade-Major Harry Smith dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride, Juana, he finds a kindred spirit, and a temper to match. see all copies from $2.15! new only from $6.60! \| SVS
4	Old Goriot more books like this by Honore de Balzac add to wishlist Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 more books like this by Anthony S Pitch add to wishlist Painstakingly tracking down firsthand sources and tattered letters, diaries, journals, and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, Pitch has brought this key episode of American history to life in a gripping narrative filled with vivid details. He describes how, after the catastrophe in Washington, a hostage on a British warship named Francis ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Napoleon and the Hundred Days more books like this by Stephen Coote add to wishlist A dazzling new portrait of the legendary emperor whose genius, courage and tenacity won and lost him an Empire In Vienna, 1815, the political aristocrats of Europe gathered to determine the fate of the continent after the defeat of Napoleon. Yet as they assembled the news arrived that Napoleon had escaped captivity and was returning to France. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The era of good feelings more books like this by George Dangerfield add to wishlist This is a prize-winning history of the years between the terms of Presidents Jefferson and Jackson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.71! \| first editions \| SVS
8	One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo more books like this by Alan Schom add to wishlist This is a reconstruction of Napoleon's 100 days between his escape from Elba and his final banishment to St Helena. All the elements of this period are recaptured: Napoleon's march through France, his ranks of loyal followers swelled every step along the way; the flight of Louis XVIII and the restored Bourbon monarchy; the fresh outbreak of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Comte: Early Political Writings more books like this by Auguste Comte, H S Jones (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor) add to wishlist This translation of Comte's early writings on Positivism makes accessible the development of his ideas. see all copies from $8.70! new only from $13.42!
10	Sharpe's honour : Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813 more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813 Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's new campaign with grim expectancy. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain -- an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. But Sharpe's enemy, Pierre ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Napoleon's invasion of Russia more books like this by George Nafziger add to wishlist An impressive and serious study of one of the most fascinating military campaigns in history. see all copies from $7.85! new only from $18.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815 more books like this by Norman MacKenzie add to wishlist The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Corunna 1809: Sir John Moore's Fighting Retreat more books like this by Philip J Haythornthwaite add to wishlist Late in 1808 Sir John Moore, virtually alone with his small British army deep inside Spain and facing the French Army led by Napoleon himself, fell back towards Corunna. The retreat became the most arduous of trials. with armies traversing mountainous terrain over appalling roads in the depths of winter. Somehow Moore held his outnumbered, ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $10.31!
14 view cover	Dolley Madison Saves George Washington more books like this by Don Brown (Illustrator) add to wishlist In lush watercolors, Brown recounts a little-known slice of American history. Forced to flee the White House during the War of 1812, First Lady Dolley Madison saved a portrait of George Washington, which would have been destroyed by the British army. Full color. see all copies from $2.33! new only from $8.00!
15 view cover	Zulu: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, 22-23 January, 1879 more books like this by Ian Knight, Angus McBride (Illustrator), Michael Chappell (Illustrator) add to wishlist This is an account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 19th century military history, which continues to exert a unique fascination. On 22nd January 1879 the British military camp at Isandlwana, South Africa, was annihilated by about 20,000 Zulu warriors. Some 1200 troops died under the Zulu spears, half of them British regular infantry of the ... see all copies from $6.97! first editions
16	Wellington and Napoleon: Clash of Arms, 1807-1815 more books like this by Robin Neillands add to wishlist "Wellington and Napoleon" tells the story of the convergence and final clash of the two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on one field. Wellington, his men said, "didn't know how to lose a battle". But Wellington himself admired his adversary: "In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon." Their careers were far apart in 1807, when ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
17	The life and times of Patrick Gass : now sole survivor of the overland expedition to the Pacific under Lewis and Clark, in 1804-5-6; also a soldier in the war with Great Britain, from 1812 to 1815, and a participant in the battle of Lundy's Lane... more books like this by J. G. Jacob add to wishlist see all copies from $8.67! new only from $15.95!
18 view cover	Imperial Sunset more books like this by R F Delderfield add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
19 view cover	The Peninsular War, 1807-1814: A Concise Military History more books like this by Michael Glover add to wishlist The Peninsular War is often eclipsed by the spectacular individual battles by sea and land of the Napoleonic Wars, but it was the decisive struggle in which the Emperor's troops faced defeat for the first time. Michael Glover seeks to give the basic skeleton of facts and to flesh it out with first-hand accounts of what it was like to march and ... see all copies from $7.23! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	A History of the Peninsular War more books like this by Sir Charles William Chadwic Oman add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
21 view cover	Vittoria 1813: Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain more books like this by Ian Fletcher add to wishlist Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. After occupying Madrid Wellington's troops were repulsed at Burgos. The subsequent retreat in October and November 1812 was accompanied by all the miseries that had characterised Sir John Moore's famous retreat ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $12.50!
22 view cover	The Private Journal of Judge-Advocate Larpent: Attached to the Headquarters of Lord Wellington During the Peninsular War, from 1812 to Its Close more books like this by Frances Seymour, Francis Seymour Larpent, Ian C Robertson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Reprinted over a century and a half since first being published, this facsimile of the Third Edition, which was referred to by Sir Charles Oman as being the best for hard facts. As Judge-Advocate-General, charged with the responsibility of reforming and simplifying the disciplinary machinery in the Duke of Wellington's army, Larpent was in almost ... see all copies from $25.50! new only from $27.49!
23	The Toad on Capitol Hill more books like this by Esther Wood Brady add to wishlist Eleven-year-old Dorsy and her family come to understand each other better when they are caught in the path of the British Army advancing on Washington in the summer of 1814. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Code of Love more books like this by Cheryl Sawyer add to wishlist To Sir Gideon Landor, an English naval prisoner, Delphine Dalgleish is a Parisian trifle, as pretty-and as useless-as a porcelain doll, who would think nothing of turning him over to the French legion. To Delphine Dalgleish, he's an ice-cool double agent whom she despises for his treachery. But these two are about to find out how wrong first ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Wellington and Napoleon: Clash of Arms more books like this by Robin Neillands add to wishlist Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle. Wellington, his men said, "didn't know how to lose a battle." But Wellington himself admired his adversary: In Portugal and Spain, Wellington helped wreck Napoleon's Continental System, bled his ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $60.59!

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