As featured 'On The Book Shelf'
Wargames Illustrated, January 2018
As featured 'On The Book Shelf'
Wargames Illustrated, January 2018
As featured 'On The Book Shelf'
Wargames Illustrated, January 2018
As featured 'On The Book Shelf'
Wargames Illustrated, January 2018
Paget has written an outstandingly good guide to the battlefields of the Peninsular.
Highly recommended.
Guild of Battlefield Guides
Paget has written an outstandingly good guide to the battlefields of the Peninsular.
Highly recommended.
Guild of Battlefield Guides
Simply put, this is an excellent addition to the Napoleonic bookshelf, which dealing as it does with a relatively unknown aspect of the conflict, is most welcome. Highly recommended.
Stuart Asquith
Simply put, this is an excellent addition to the Napoleonic bookshelf, which dealing as it does with a relatively unknown aspect of the conflict, is most welcome. Highly recommended.
Stuart Asquith
This title describes in detail the system of command and administration, in the Duke of Wellington’ headquarters during the Peninsular War, as well as the roles of the officers involved. The author demonstrates how the Duke organised his army and adapted his headquarters from the existing system to meet his needs, as well as offering an insight into the way his headquarters worked and the individuals who worked within it.
Stuart Asquith
This title describes in detail the system of command and administration, in the Duke of Wellington’ headquarters during the Peninsular War, as well as the roles of the officers involved. The author demonstrates how the Duke organised his army and adapted his headquarters from the existing system to meet his needs, as well as offering an insight into the way his headquarters worked and the individuals who worked within it.
Stuart Asquith
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Wellington's Worst Scrape
The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moore's army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington the British and their allies suffered defeats and retreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of… Read more...
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Albuera 1811
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12… Read more...
