Fighting general: The public and private campaigns of General Sir Walter Walker

Tom Pocock

Collins

Essential Travel Guides are the world's best-selling new travel guide series. Essentials are easy-to-use, easy-to-carry and tell you all you need to know for a perfect trip. They are written by expert authors and superbly illustrated by top travel photographers.

Essential Venice (The Essential travel guide series)

Travel

Little,Brown

After his defeat by Nelson at Trafalgar, Napoleon knew he could never invade England. Many thought he would try to take over the vast, crumbling Ottoman Empire, return to Egypt and even march on India. So the British concentrated on the Mediterranean: for a decade it became the scene of dangers - real or imagined - and of battles - both on land and at sea. All was dictated by a fierce determination to stop Napoleon. There were triumphs and disasters in remote and exotic places, and a Trafalgar in miniature was fought between frigate squadrons in the Adriatic. The Peninsular War might well have been fought in another peninsula: Italy. Bizarre rulers had to be flattered, or fought: the Bourbons in Palmero and Napoleon's dashing brother-in-law, Marshal Murat, King of Naples. The successors to Nelson and predecessors of Wellington fought there, amongst them Lord Collingwood, Sir Sidney Smith and Sir John Moore. Napoleon himself materialised at his most magnificent in Venice and in humiliating exile on Elba. Of course, Napoleon himself did not see it like that, and the outcome was startling for all...

Stopping Napoleon : War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean

History

Europe

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

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BATTLE FOR EMPIRE

Caxton

A Thirst for Glory: The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith

Pocock's biography of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith who, along with Nelson, shared the credit for changing the course of history by ending Bonaparte's dream of eastern conquest shows that while Nelson has become the unrivalled national hero, Smith has been almost forgotten.

A thirst for glory: The life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Aurum Press Ltd

This text explores the conflict that began in 1756 and ended in 1763, generally known as the Seven Years War, which the author believes laid the foundations of the British Empire and set the scene for Britain's global dominance that lasted nearly two centuries.

Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756-63

Michael O Mara Publications

Captain Marryat; Seaman, Writer and Adventurer

Chatham Publishing

Breaking the Chains: The Royal Navy's War on White Slavery

Military

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