The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution
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The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and...
Private Houses of France: Living with History
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A dozen aristocratic French families invite readers to experience their elegant lifestyle, from the...

Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine: A Bibliography / Bibliographie de l'Histoire de la Medecine: Volume 2
Charles G. Roland and Jacques Bernier
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Volume Two of this retrospective bibliography is both a continuation and an expansion of Volume One...

Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine?
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Vietnam: A History
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A special edition hardcover book and DVD set with more than three hours of rarely seen American...

Mend the Living
Maylis de Kerangal and Jessica Moore
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Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize...

Fontenoy 1745: Cumberland's Bloody Defeat
Michael McNally and Sean O'Brogain
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A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe...

David McK (3562 KP) rated Death to the French in Books
Jul 26, 2021
Hornblower, however, is not the only of his creations that has their adventures set during the Napoleonic Wars: Rifleman Dodd is another.
He's also one that I was totally unfamiliar with, or with the fact that this creation (and story) inspired Bernard Cornwell's still-ongoing 'Sharpe' series - it's very easy, reading this, to see the similarities between the two creations!
This is set in Spain, round about the times of the Lines of Torres Vedras (1810 or thereabouts, I think), with Rifleman Dodd cut off from his company during a retreat and forced to spend several months behind enemy (French) lines as he tries to make his was back to his own company, sometimes with the (dubious) aid of Spanish (or was it Portuguese? ) Guerilla's and other times entirely on his own.
This also doesn't shy away from the full horrors of the war, with several of the passages and chapters told from the French point of view.

Blood's Campaign
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In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . . August 25, 1689 The English army has...