Search Results: Authors starting with U from Viceroy Books

United Kingdom: Wrens Park, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to cover. 360 pages. This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a new account of the Ligne, Quatre Bras, Waterloo, and Wavre. Contains over 100 maps, diagrams and illustrations, plus a detailed Order of Battle for both armies. . Hard Cover. As New/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Greenhill Press, 2006. New book, 272 pages. Napoleon won his final victory on 16 June 1815 at Ligny, shortly before suffering a crushing defeat at Waterloo. Facing two enemy armies - Wellington’s Anglo-Allied and Blücher’s Prussian - he aimed his main attack against Blücher at Ligny and diverted Wellington’s attention by engaging his forward elements at Quatre Bras. The Eagle’s Last Triumph is the single most comprehensive examination of this vital aspect of the 1815 campaign available in English. Having put the battle at Ligny into perspective, the author provides a clear account of the action in detail, including much eye-witness testimony. The complex story of Wellington and Blucher’s co-operation throughout the struggle against the French is revealed, with new light on Wellington’s promises of prompt aid to the Prussians in the early stages of the campaign - promises which he failed to keep. The reasons for General d’Erlon’s failure to support the… Read More

Greenhill Press, 2006. New book, 272 pages. Napoleon won his final victory on 16 June 1815 at Ligny, shortly before suffering a crushing defeat at Waterloo. Facing two enemy armies - Wellington’s Anglo-Allied and Blücher’s Prussian - he aimed his main attack against Blücher at Ligny and diverted Wellington’s attention by engaging his forward elements at Quatre Bras. The Eagle’s Last Triumph is the single most comprehensive examination of this vital aspect of the 1815 campaign available in English. Having put the battle at Ligny into perspective, the author provides a clear account of the action in detail, including much eye-witness testimony. The complex story of Wellington and Blucher’s co-operation throughout the struggle against the French is revealed, with new light on Wellington’s promises of prompt aid to the Prussians in the early stages of the campaign - promises which he failed to keep. The reasons for General d’Erlon’s failure to support the… Read More

United Kingdom: Wrens Park, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to cover. 360 pages. This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a new account of the Ligne, Quatre Bras, Waterloo, and Wavre. Contains over 100 maps, diagrams and illustrations, plus a detailed Order of Battle for both armies. . Hard Cover. As New/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Wrens Park, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to cover. 360 pages. This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a new account of the Ligne, Quatre Bras, Waterloo, and Wavre. Contains over 100 maps, diagrams and illustrations, plus a detailed Order of Battle for both armies. . Hard Cover. As New/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Wrens Park, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to cover. 360 pages. This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a new account of the Ligne, Quatre Bras, Waterloo, and Wavre. Contains over 100 maps, diagrams and illustrations, plus a detailed Order of Battle for both armies. . Hard Cover. As New/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 2004. New book, 351 pages. In this deeply researched, beutifully crafted and captivating volume, Urban recounts the story of the 95th Rifles - the elite regiment who provided the Duke of Wellington with his crack troops and helped to win the Peninsular War against Napoleons Marshals. The book covers the history of all three batalions from 1809 to 1815.. Mass Market Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 2005. New book, 336 pages. Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are obscure figures whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite different to those they had intended, from the creation of the United States of America to the invention of Blitzkreig. All ten of the Generals revealed either a brilliant ability or a fatal flaw. While one became a Prime Minister, another was beheaded. Success or failure depended largely on their ability to work within Britain's Parliamentary democracy - and against tyrants, despots and emperors who were often free to act alone. Covers George Monck, John Churchill, William Howe, Prince Frederick, Arthur Wellesley, Charles George Gordon, Herbert Kitchener, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, John Frederick Charles Fuller, and Bernard Law Montgomery..… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 2004. New book, 351 pages. In this deeply researched, beutifully crafted and captivating volume, Urban recounts the story of the 95th Rifles - the elite regiment who provided the Duke of Wellington with his crack troops and helped to win the Peninsular War against Napoleons Marshals. The book covers the history of all three batalions from 1809 to 1815.. Mass Market Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Greenhill Books, 2006. New book, 304 pages. The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of providing the skilled and disciplined warriors necessary to keep the enemy at bay. It was the mercenary who stepped in to fill the ranks. In this benchmark work, William Urban explores the vital importance of the mercenary to the medieval power-broker, from the Byzantine Varangian Guard to fifteenth-century soldiers of fortune in the Baltic. Through contemporary chronicles and the most up-to-date scholarship, he presents an in-depth portrait of the mercenary across the Middle Ages. A mercenary was a professional soldier who took employment with no concern for the morals or cause of the paymaster. But within these confines we discover a surprising array of men, from the lowest-born foot… Read More