Gareth Glover: 19 books
The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807
Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover...
Letters from the Battle of Waterloo
Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Waterloo is probably the most famous battle in military history. Thousands of books have been written on the subject but mysteries remain and controversy abounds.
By presenting more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, this collection goes right...
by Gareth Glover, Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
From bullet-pierced armor, skeletons of horses, medals, coins, and teeth of deceased soldiers—a rich trove of Waterloo treasure survives 200 years onObjects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can come closer to the reality experienced...
The American Sharpe
The Adventures of an American Officer of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in...
Waterloo Archive
Volume 1: British Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
In the first groundbreaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The range and unique nature of much of the research will intrigue and fascinate enthusiasts and historians alike.
The wealth...
Waterloo
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led...
The Forgotten War Against Napoleon
Conflict in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the conflict....
Waterloo Archive Vol II
German Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
German troops formed the majority of Wellington’s forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the King’s German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle.
The actions of the King's German Legion...
With Wellington's Hussars in the Peninsula and Waterloo
The Journal of Lieutenant George Woodberry, 18th Hussars
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
George Woodberry was commissioned into the 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) as a cornet on 16 Jan 1812, and joined Wellington’s army as a lieutenant, seeing action in the key battles of 1813 and 14 – Moralles, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Croix d’Orade and the final battle of the war at Toulouse....
A Scots Grey at Waterloo
The Remarkable Story of Sergeant William Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803. Clarke had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time the regiment was ordered to Belgium on the news that Napoleon had escaped from Elba. Forming part of what became known as the ‘Union’...
Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler
The Peninsula Letters and St Helena Diaries of Sir George Rideout Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
The author wrote numerous letters home from the campaigns that he fought with Wellington in the Peninsular when he was commanding his Regiment. He was therefore in a senior position and privy to secrets of the war. He is often caustic regarding his superiors including The Iron Duke himself. He packs...
From Corunna to Waterloo
With the Hussars 1808 to 1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Basing his story on contemporary letters, diaries and reports and a comprehensive bibliography, John Mollo takes the reader into the heart of the Hussar Brigade in peace and war, depicting its many colourful characters with a sure hand and describing every facet of day-to-day life, in barracks and...
An Eloquent Soldier
The Peninsular War Journals of Lieutenant Charles Crowe of the Inniskillings, 1812-14
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is
a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published.
Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time,...
Fighting Napoleon
The Recollections of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
“These lively and entertaining memoirs provide an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington’s better-known operations in the Iberian Peninsula” (Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series).
It is often forgotten that Britain’s struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and...
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