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The Napoleonic Library Naval & Military Press Specialised Books for the Serious Student of Conflict A fine selection of military reading priced at £5.99 or less! Issue 170 THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY For 200 years, the Napoleonic Wars have been studied and analysed as no conflict before. The wars also produced memoirs and diaries on an hitherto unparalleled scale, allowing readers to experience warfare through the eyes of privates and generals alike for the first time. The result has been a vast body of work, including some of the finest and most detailed military history books ever produced. In addition to the great classic works, The Napoleonic Library also presents more recent and entirely new studies. NAPOLEON’S SHIELD MARCH OF DEATH AND GUARDIAN Sir John Moore’s Retreat to The Unconquerable Corunna 1808–1809 NOW NOW £3.99 General Daumesnil £3.99 Christopher Summerville. Edward Ryan. Hardback 288 pp Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 29341 Published Price £35.00 Order No: 25967 Published Price £19.99 LIFE IN NAPOLEON’S ARMY ON THE ROAD The Graphic Memories of WITH WELLINGTON Captain Elzear Blaze The Diary of a War Commissary NOW in the Peninsular Campaigns NOW Elzear Blaze, Philip Haythornthwaite, £3.99 Sir Charles James Napier. A. L. F. Schaumann. Hardback, 448 pages £3.99 Hardback, 198 pages Order No: 25969 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 25326 Published Price £19.99 HISTORY OF THE WATERLOO LETTERS WATERLOO CAMPAIGN A Collection of Accounts from The Classic Account of the Last Battle Survivors of the Campaign of 1815 of the Napoleonic Wars H. T. Siborne. Hardback, 415 pages William Siborne. Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 25338 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 26203 Published Price £25.00 NOW NOW £3.99 FROM CORUNNA £3.99 NAPOLEON’S TO WATERLOO MERCENARIES The Letters and Journals of Foreign Units in the French Army under Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816 the Consulate and Empire 1799 to 1814 Gareth Glover. Hardback, 256 pages Guy C. Dempsey. Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 25357 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 29833 Published Price £25.00 MEMOIRS OF BARON VON MUFFLING NOW NOW A Prussian Officer in £3.99 £3.99 NOW Napoleonic Wars £3.99 Baron Carl von Muffling. Hardback, 560 pages Order No: 25360 Published Price £30.00 VOICES FROM WITH NAPOLEON’S GUNS THE PENINSULA The Military Memoirs of an Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of NOW Officer of the First Empire Wellington’s Army, 1808-1814 £3.99 Jean-Nicholas Auguste Noel. NOW £3.99 Ian Fletcher. Hardback, 256 pages Hardback 231 pages Order No: 26340 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 27123 Published Price £19.99 CHARGE! 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