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A survey of the Napoleonic Wars. The central theme is the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states from Portugal to Russ...
The Eagle Rejected
So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from the...
A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, su...
A Military History
The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939. In many histories, t...
Myth, Legend and Popular Memory
Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tal...
The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb a...
An International History, 1803-1815
An account of the European wars during the rise and fall of Napoleon challenges popular conceptions about his ambitions and achievements while posing ...
A New History
For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend i...
1792–1801
The Wars of the French Revolution, 1792–1801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, ...
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In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victi...
A Guide
Charles Esdaile’s new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and di...
The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucia, 1810-1812
Napoleon’s forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest front...
How Volunteers from Britain Fought Against Franco
A frequent visitor to Spain and Portugal who has specialized in the history of the Peninsular War for his entire career, Charles Esdaile has visited m...