James Falkner: 20 books
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defense and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and radical thinker on military and social affairs,...
The Battle of Fontenoy 1745
Saxe against Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account, puts the record straight by describing...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That...
Marlborough's Wars
Eyewitness Accounts 1702 - 1713
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first hand. James Falkner has brought together a vivid...
Ramillies 1706
Year of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. Marlborough's triumph on that day ranks alongside Blenheim as one of the great...
Fire Over the Rock
The Great Siege of Gibraltar, 1779–1783
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
**“**This book does a wonderful job in describing a portion of [the Rock of Gibraltar’s] history during the Napoleonic Wars” (The Past in Review).
The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783, a small British force defended...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Blenheim, Ramilles , Oudenarde, Malplaquet – much has been written about the brilliant victories of the Duke of Marlborough's Anglo-Dutch army over the armies of Louis XIV of France during the War of the Spanish Succession. Less attention has been focused on the men and the military organization...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
Three hundred years ago Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough, led the Allied armies in an epic struggle against the powerful French forces of Louis XIV, in campaigns that stretched across wide areas of the Low Countries, France and Germany. Marlborough's victories at...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The story of one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession—and some would say in the history of conflict in EuropeThe overwhelming Allied victory at Blenheim ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance. Bavaria...
Blenheim 1704
Marlborough's Greatest Victory
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2004
A detailed and easily followed guidebook that tells the story of the Duke of Marlborough's victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 and takes the reader across the Bavarian battlefield, rediscovering the lanes and by-ways tramped by the soldiers of 300 years ago. The author's skilful use of maps,...
by Louisa May Alcott, Montague Rhodes James, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written.
Featuring:
THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May Alcott
THE GHOST, by Arnold Bennett
THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens
THE...
by Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...
by Robert William Chambers, John Meade Falkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. The novels are sorted alphabetically by the authors. Anthology containing: The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Legend of...
HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Black Magic, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Dracula, The Monk, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Beetle…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...
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