19th Century Military History Books
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Warship 2021
GNM Hardback Published 13 May 2021For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished... -
The Bayonet
WPN 78 Paperback Published 15 Apr 2021Although muskets delivered devastating projectiles at comparatively long ranges, their slow rate of fire left the soldier very vulnerable while reloading, and early muskets were useless for close-quarter... -
Napoleon's Women Camp Followers
MAA 538 Paperback Published 18 Mar 2021The cantinières who accompanied Napoleon's armies to war have an iconic status in the history of the Grande Armée. Sutler-women and laundresses were officially sanctioned members of the regiment performing... -
US Soldier vs British Soldier
CBT 54 Multiple formatsBetween June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.... -
Early Military Rifles
WPN 76 Multiple formatsThe conduct of combat operations in open order during the 18th and 19th centuries required an improved firearm with more accuracy than the standard-issue smoothbore infantry musket. Consequently, the appearance... -
Warship 2020
GNM Multiple formatsFor over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished... -
Nelson's Navy
GNM HardbackPatrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of... -
Japanese Armies 1868–1877
MAA 530 Multiple formatsThe restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation... -
The Paraguayan War 1864–70
CAM 342 Multiple formatsThe Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was the largest and most important military conflict in the history of South America, after the Wars of Independence, and its only true... -
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman
CBT 43 Multiple formatsFollowing the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great...
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