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John H Lewis
Most stories are journeys one way or another. Sometimes they contain several other stories within them, all entwined like strands in a rope. This journey-the first big ride for this…
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A new account of the Guards on campaign during the Napoleonic Wars
This is the story of an elite infantry regiment of the British Army; the First Regiment of Foot…
A new biography of possibly the most renowned light cavalryman
There can be few, if any, students of the military history of the Napoleonic period who are unaware of the…
John A. H. Lewis
The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis.
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Francis Duncan
Wellington’s guns and their gunners
Published in 1879, Major Duncan’s (of the Royal Artillery) ‘History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery’ in two large volumes was, in its time, an…
Charles Oman
Britain’s war with Napoleon by Oman in a single volume
Those familiar with the outstanding scholarship of the historian Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (1860-1946) may be confused by the…
William Leeke
A new single volume edition of the military writings of ‘Ensign’ Leeke of the 52nd
Seventeen year old William Leeke marched to war for the first time in 1815 with…
Jacques Fricasse
With the armies of the Sambre & Meuse, Rhine & Moselle and Italy, 1792-1802
There are a number of translated French accounts that tell of the wartime experiences of the…
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Desire Chlapowski, John H Lewis
The adventures of an Aide to the Emperor and officer of Polish Lancers
The author of this riveting first-hand account of the Napoleonic Wars was, in the first years of…
Rees H Gronow, John H Lewis
The complete campaigns and battles of a young guards officer during the Napoleonic Wars
Captain Rees Howell Gronow, formerly of the Grenadier Guards, came to the attention of the British…
John Enright
Let There Be Light: Or Why I Withdrew From The Church Of My Fathers is a book written by John Enright and published in 1920. The book is a personal…
Arthur C Lowe
The first campaign in which British Army cavalry fought with the lance
Napoleon’s light cavalry taught its enemies, in harshly learned lessons, that the lance was a highly effective weapon…
George Armand Furse
Napoleon’s military genius as a commander at war with Austria and Russia
In 1805, Napoleon and his Grand Army stood on the northern coast of France poised to cross the…
Arthur C Lowe,John H Lewis
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives.
Howard H. Lewis
After five grueling years, the case was ultimately settled for $186 million–three times the original offer from the US government–and Lewis became known as a champion defender of both the…
Jean Louis Rieu
A new personal account and history
The Marine Artillery of Napoleon’s army is possibly one of the least well known units in the military history of the First Empire of…
CONTENTS: Foreword The United Nations: Stuck in a Fog between Peacekeeping and Enforcement Assertive Multilateralism : Rhetoric vs Reality Problems for U.S. Forces in Operations Beyond Peacekeeping Peace Support Operations…
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David Erwyd Jenkins
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
Bedd Gelert: Its Facts, Fairies, and Folklore is a book written by David Erwyd Jenkins in 1899. The book is a comprehensive account of the history, legends, and folklore surrounding…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Hylan Lewis
Consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and Townways of Kent , the Kent Trilogy forms a southern ethnography. This text presents an account of African American…
Rethinking Social Policy
An introduction to, and analysis of, the mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy.
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Fernand Marboutin
Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, dessins, pastels par Bellange (H.), Brown (John-Lewis), Charlet… [et al.], tableaux et dessins anciens, par ou attribues a Boilly, Boissieu (de), Boucher (Fr.)… [et al.]……
Felix Octavius Carr Darley,John S Robb,H C Lewis
In A Series Of Forty-Two Humorous Southern And Western Sketches.
Lewis Carroll (Christ Church College, Oxford)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a summer tale published by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) for the first time in July 1865. Many of the characters and adventures in that…
‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, printed in the Deseret Alphabet devised by Brigham Young.
Multiple Contributors
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…