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  • Defiant and Dismasted at Trafalgar

    The Life & Times of Admiral Sir William Hargood

    by Mary McGrigor ...
    Born in 1762, William Hargood's naval career spanned over 30 years, as he rose from humble midshipman to the captain of one of the most powerful warships of the day at Trafalgar. He campaigned all over the known world: the Americas, West Indies, throughout the Mediterranean. Britain was hardly ever at peace during those troubled times and men like Hargood sought out her enemies wherever they could ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Spies

    by Mary McGrigor ...
    The gripping story of three intelligence officers whose dangerous work and sacrifice helped lead to victory over Napoleon's forces.Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. But back then, there was only one way of obtaining it: through spies and informers. Here, Mary McGrigor uses firsthand accounts of three of Wellington's most daring and successful intelligence ... Read more

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  • The Tsar's Doctor

    by Mary McGrigor ...
    Born in Kincardine in 1767, James Wylie became one of the most celebrated doctors in Europe and the centre of two of the most fascinating and enduring conspiracy theories in Russian history. Having performed the first tracheotomy operation to be carried out in Russia on Count Kutaisof, one of the Tsar Paul I's favourites, Wylie was made the Tsar's personal doctor. When the Tsar was assassinated in ... Read more

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  • Every Man Will Do His Duty

    An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815

    Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth ... Read more

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  • In Love & War

    The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

    An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married ... Read more

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  • Cochrane

    The Real Master and Commander

    In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the stock exchange scandal that forced him out of England and almost ended his naval ... Read more

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  • Trafalgar

    The men, the battle, the storm

    Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes

    The True Story of a Forgotten Hero in Wellington's Army

    by Mark Urban ...
    The little-known story of a brilliant British code-cracker: "[Urban] has pieced together the fragments and deciphered the truth about a hidden hero." — Daily TelegraphThe Duke of Wellington—who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley—is rightly credited for the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Two centuries later, ... Read more

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  • Nelson's Trafalgar

    The Battle That Changed the World

    by Roy Adkins ...
    An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces ... Read more

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  • Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808–1814

    by Jac Weller ...
    The author of Wellington at Waterloo delivers an in-depth history of the military commander's tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War.After gaining strategic and tactical experience in Colonial India, Arthur Wellesley went to battle against French forces in the Peninsular War. With his decisive victories there, he ascended to the peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Duke of Wellington. In ... Read more

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  • The World of Patrick O'Brian

    A Sea of Words, A Life Revealed, Harbors and High Seas, and Every Man Will Do His Duty

    by Dean King ...
    Four volumes of history and biography for fans of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, with lore on the Royal Navy and much more.What is a sandgrouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Adm. Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Capt. Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O ... Read more

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  • The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

    The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

    by Noel Mostert ...
    The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits.In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics ... Read more

    $23.99 USD