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Cover of The War of Spanish Succession: The Sea Battle of Malaga
by A.T. Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The War of Spanish Succession: The Sea Battle of Malaga is a brief account of the famous battle.
Cover of Narrative Of The Siege of Zaragoza
by Charles Richard Vaughan M.B.
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013

The two sieges of Zaragoza in 1808 and 1809 during the Peninsular War were proverbially bitter, as the patriotic fervour encountered invading the French was unknown during their campaigns in other parts of Europe. This was to be the “guerra al cuchillo”, the war of the Spanish Guerilla, impassioned...
Cover of Studies In The Napoleonic Wars
by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

“These fascinating and valuable studies supplement Sir Charles Oman’s major works about the Napoleonic Wars —Wellington’s Army and the majestic seven-volume History of the Peninsular War. The subjects of study range widely and interestingly. They include a discussion of the views of...
Cover of History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. VII [Illustrated Edition]
by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

The product of twenty years of laborious hard work, this is the definitive work on Napoleon and his times at the helm of the French Nation, written by no less than the first President of the Third Republic. Thiers moved in the highest circles of society and met with many of the surviving generals...
Cover of Memoirs of Constant - First Valet de Chambre to the Emperor. Vol III
by Louis Constant Wairy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre...
Cover of A Great Man’s Friendship

A Great Man’s Friendship

Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1850-1852

by The Duke of Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

Originally published in 1927 and edited by Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana (Herbert) Burghclere, this book is a collection of the Duke of Wellington’s letters to one of his regular correspondents and friend, Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury. The letters in this volume...
Cover of Memoirs And Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere Vol. II
by Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB GCH KSI PC (14 November 1773 - 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet’s insurrection...
Cover of Military Life in Bivouac, Camp, Garrison, Barracks, &c.
by Elzéar Blaze
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011

Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs...
Cover of The Adventures of Thomas Williams of St. Ives, Cornwall
by Thomas Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

An oft-forgotten number of British sailors, soldiers and merchantmen were taken prisoner during the long years of the Napoleonic Wars. Ranging from men such as Captain Moyle Sherer, who was captured in 1813, suffering less than a year of imprisonment, to Thomas Williams, who was captured only a year...
Cover of Memoirs of Constant - First Valet de Chambre to the Emperor. Vol I
by Louis Constant Wairy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011

Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre...
Cover of Twenty-Five years in the Rifle Brigade
by Quartermaster William Surtees
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011

A thoughtful account from the ranks of the Rifle Brigade, by a former enlisted man who raised himself to the rank of quarter-master and served throughout the Peninsular War and the expedition to America which met with a disastrous end at New Orleans. Surtees’ account of his service with the famed...
Cover of Memoirs of the Late War – Vol. II.
by George Augustus Frederick, 1st Earl of Munster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

An anthology of memoirs of the Peninsular War and the abortive attack on Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. In this first volume, Captain Cooke recounts his experiences with the 43rd Foot at Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Bidassoa, the Nive, Nivelle and Toulouse. As with many of the British officer memoirs, there is a tone of dry wit about his writing.
Cover of Narrative of a Captivity in France and Flanders Between the Years 1803 and 1809
by Captain Edward Boys, R.N.
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

Written at the promptings of friends and family, the story of Midshipman Boys captivity and escape from Napoleonic France stands as an adventure yarn par excellence, it is however the true story of his trials after capture by the French in 1803. As a young sailor in the Royal Navy, Boys was posted...
Cover of The memoirs of Baron Thiébault (late lieutenant-general in the French army) — Vol. I
by Général de Division Baron Paul-Charles-François-Adrien-Henri Dieudonné Thiébault
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013

General Thiébault was always destined for a career in the military: his father was a professor in the military school in Berlin and a friend of Frederick the Great. Having started as a volunteer in the Revolutionary army, he started to acquire a reputation for his knowledge of military matters and...
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