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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.
Author
Series
Thomas Grey novels (J. H. Gelernter) volume 1
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The year is 1803, and the British Secret Service is contending with a belligerent France under Napoleon. The service suffers a blow in the loss of a prime agent, Thomas Grey, who--despondent at his wife's untimely death--resigns from British Intelligence and departs England for Boston, where he intends to become a lumber merchant. His plan to start a new life is thrown abruptly off course when a French intelligence network attempts to recruit him...
44) Ship of the line
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian...
45) The hundred days
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 19
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
All of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage, for the stockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents and the admiralty's intelligence networks is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage...
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on...and find a wife so as to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune. Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On June 17, 1815, the Duke of Wellington amassed his troops at Hougoumont, an ancient farmstead not far from Waterloo. The next day, the French attacked--the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo--sparking a brutal, day-long skirmish that left six thousand men either dead or wounded. William is a white rabbit living at Hougoumont today. Under the tutelage of his mysterious and wise grandmother Old Lavender, William attunes himself to the echoes and...
49) Only enchanting
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 4
Language
English
Description
Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, was devastated by his fiancée?s desertion after his return home. Now the woman who broke his heart is back?and everyone is eager to revive their engagement. Except Flavian, who, in a panic, runs straight into the arms of a most sensible yet enchanting young woman. Agnes Keeping has never been in love?and never wishes to be. But then she meets the charismatic Flavian, and suddenly Agnes falls so foolishly and so deeply...
Author
Series
Kingsbridge volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Un nuevo amanecer para Kingsbridge en la emocionante quinta novela de la saga «Los pilares de la Tierra.» La revolución está en el aire: 1792. Un gobierno tiránico está decidido a convertir Inglaterra en un poderoso imperio comercial. Mientras, Napoleón Bonaparte comienza su ambicioso ascenso al poder y, en medio de un gran descontento social, los vecinos de Francia se mantienen en máxima alerta. Kingsbridge se asoma al abismo: Las innovaciones...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France: war, religion, and monarchy. Doyle shows how, as First Consul of the Republic, Napoleon resolved these issues: first by winning the war, then by forging peace with the Church, and finally...
Author
Series
Hanno Stiffeniis mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1805, British soldier Richard Sharpe is faced with a new enemy when the ship carrying him to England is attacked by a French warship and he discovers that the French vessel is carrying a treaty that ignites hostilities against the British in India.
58) The men who lost America: British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers...
60) Sharpe's fury
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 21st installment of the Sharpe series, Captain Richard Sharpe and his men help defend the last bastion of Spanish independence from Napoleon's siege.
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