| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Anonymous (Ed Hibbert, C) | A Soldier of the Seventy First | Edinburgh, 1819 | Yes [Windrush Press] | FR 940.270924/5, Home | A man of education in the ranks. Bit of a whinger. |
| Anonymous | Memorials of the Late War, Vols 1 & 2 (part of "Constable's Miscellany") | Constable, Edinburgh, 1831 | Some parts are | FR 940.8 MEM | 1. A soldier of the 71st 2. Neale's Spanish Campaign 3. Hope's Corunna Despatch 4. Malcolm's Reminiscences 5. De Rocca's War in Spain 6. Narrative of Waterloo 7. Death of Napoleon |
| Anonymous | Rules and Articles for the Better Government of All His Majesty's Forces | Eyre & Strahan, London, 1807 | No | Home | The Articles of War! Thanks Sol |
| Anonymous | An Act for Punishing Mutiny and Desertion and for the Better Payment of the Army and their Quarters | Eyre & Strahan, London, 1807 | No | Home | A nice mix. Thanks Sol |
| Anonymous | Atlas of the Peninsular War: 1808-1814 | Worley Press, 2000 | Yes | Home | A collection of old maps, French, British, Spanish, Portuguese. Notes on the origins would be helpful. |
| Asprey, R. | The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1 - The Rise | Little, Brown & Co, 2000 | Yes [Abacus] | Home | The latest, disappointingly superficial. Strangely, his grasp of the niceties of military affairs seems limited. |
| Asprey, R. | The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, 2 - The Fall | Little, Brown & Co, 2001 | Yes [Abacus] | Home | |
| Barber, Capt. | Instructions for the Formation and Exercise of Volunteer Sharp-Shooters | Egerton, 1804 | No | Home | This was obviously Johnny Kincaid's bible when it came to skirmishing and outpost work. Thanks, Sol |
| Barthorp, M & Hook, R | Wellington's Generals | Osprey Publishing 1978 | No, Copies may still be available | FR 355.3320922/2/1, Home | Good, though brief, coverage |
| Becke, AF | Napoleon and Waterloo | Kegan Paul etc, London, 1939 | Yes [Greenhill] | FR 940.8B | Thorough |
| Blackmore, HL | British Military Firearms: 1650-1850 | Herbert Jenkins, London, 1961 | No | Home | Basically the story of flintlock firearms (though it covers matchlocks at the start and percussion locks at the end). Pays to know a bit about locks before you start. |
| Bluth, BJ | Marching with Sharpe | Harper Collins, 2001 | Yes | Home | A Look at life in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, quoting original sources, and using pictures of modern re-enactors - fun for the enthusiast. |
| Brack, F. de | Light Cavalry Out-Posts | W. Mitchell & Co, 1876 | Yes [Ken Trotman] | Home | Translation from the 5th Ed by Tweeddale, Hale & Hobson. Modern edition published with Manningham's Lectures. |
| Bryant, A | Jackets of Green | Collins, 1972 | No | Home | Includes extracts from Rifle Regs, and Manningham's lectures |
| Bryant, A | The Years of Endurance: 1793-1802 | Collins, 1942, 1975 | ?Yes [House of Stratus] | FR 940.27/19, Home | British history of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic War periods. Covers the political situation in Britain and its influence on military operations. Bryant's jingoistic attitude is dated, but his ideas on the interaction of political, social, economic and military events is instructive |
| Bryant, A | The Years of Victory: 1802-1812 | Collins, 1945 | ?Yes [House of Stratus] | FR 942.073/94/1, Home | |
| Bryant, A | The Age of Elegance: 1812-1822 | Collins, 1950, 1975 | Yes [House of Stratus] | FR 940.27/15, Home | |
| Bukhari, E | Napoleon's Marshals | Osprey Books 1979 | Yes | Home | Very brief overview with nice illustrations. |
| Caldwell, G & Cooper, R | Rifles at Waterloo | Bugle Horn Pubs 1995 | Yes | Home | A brief description of what the rifles did at Waterloo |
| Castle, I | Eggmuhl 1809 | Osprey Books 1998 | Yes | Home | The second book written of a pair on the 1809 campaign |
| Castle, I | Aspern & Wagram 1809 | Osprey Books 1994 | Yes | Home | The first of a pair on the later battles of the 1809 campaign |
| Chandler, DG | Austerlitz 1805 | Osprey Books, 1990 | Yes | Home | Background and good maps |
| Chandler, DG | Jena 1806 | Osprey Books, 1993 | Yes | Home | Typical solid material in the "Campaign" series |
| Chandler, D | Waterloo: The Hundred Days | Osprey, 1980 | Yes | Home | More detailed than Wootton. Good maps |
| Chandler, D | Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars | Simon & Schuster, 1993 | Yes [Wordsworth Military Library] | Home | Errata: Only one entry for Cathcart, should be two at least |
| Chandler, D | The Campaigns of Napoleon | Macmillan, 1966 | Yes [Weidenfeld & Nicolson] | Home | VERY good |
| Chandler, D (Ed) | Napoleon's Marshals | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 | Yes [Cassell & Co, 2000] | Home | Interesting and well written analysis of the marshalate, including the original lecture which sparked the book. Chandler strikes me as being one of the few historians who are geniunely open minded and readable. |
| Chandler, DG | On The Napoleonic Wars | Greenhill Books 1999 | Yes | Home | Interesting essays on a number of aspects, including why Britain got involved in the wars at all! |
| Chappell, M | The King's German Legion (I) 1803-1812 | Osprey 2000 | Yes | Home | One of a very few works dedicated to this part of the British army. |
| Chappell, M | The King's German Legion (II) 1812-1816 | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home |
| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Chartrand, R | The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) | Osprey 2000 | Yes | Home | The best work in English on the Portuguese Troops. Well beyond Pivka. |
| Chartrand, R | The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2) | Osprey 2000 | Yes | Home | |
| Chartrand, R | The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (3) | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home | |
| Chartrand, R | Vimeiro 1808 | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home | |
| Chartrand, R | Bussaco 1810 | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home | These two form a set covering Massena's invasion. |
| Chartrand, R | Fuentes de Oñoro | Osprey 2002 | Yes | Home | |
| Chester, D | The Fighting Simmons's of Beverley | Privately published (Date?) | Yes | Home | Brief summary of the careers of all three brothers |
| Connolly, S | Encyclopaedia of Rifles and Handguns | Fairmount Books, 1997 | Yes | Home | Nice diagrams, but not a lot on flintlocks |
| Cooper, JS | Rough Notes of Seven Campaigns: 1809-1815 | 1869 | Yes [Spellmount] | Home | A sergeant in the 7th |
| Cope, WH | The History of the Rifle Brigade | Chatto & Windus, 1877 | Yes [Naval & Military Press] | Home | Semi-official history of the regiment. Waterloo is about half-way through the book. |
| Costello, E (Ed. Brett-James, A) | Edward Costello: The Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns | Longmans, 1967 (Colburn & Co, 1852) | No | Home | Slightly edited version of the 1788-1818 section of Costello's Adventures of a Soldier, written by himself |
| Croker, JW (Ed Pool, B) |
The Croker Papers: 1808-1857 | Edited Edition: Batsford, 1967 | No | FR942.07/2 | Edited highlights from Croker's diary and letters, including the famous quote from AW. First published 1886. |
| Cronin, V | Napoleon | Collins, 1971, Pelican, 1973 | No | Home | Detailed biography. Cronin is a devotee, but knows how to make his work readable. |
| Cumpston, JHL | Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General and Explorer | Oxford, 1955 | No | Home | Biography of Thomas Mitchell, the Rifleman who became surveyor general of NSW |
| Dobbs, J. | Recollections of an Old 52nd Man | 2nd Ed, John Palmer, 1863 | Yes [Spellmount] | Home | Light Division Biography of nearly entire war. Post-Napier with a bit of "He dun us wrong"ing at times. |
| Donaldson, J | Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier | 1827-9 (collected edition, Martin, Edinburgh, 1852) | Yes [Spellmount] | Home | Another Scots lad who ran away to be a soldier, much to his parents' grief. |
| Elliot-Wright, P | Rifleman | Military Illustrated, 2000 | No | Home | A look at the origins of the 5/60th & 95th, their training and their actions in war. |
| Esdaile, C. | The Peninsular War: A New History | Penguin Allen Lane, 2002 | Yes [] | Home | Aims to put the war into its political, social and economic context. Very good, readable and informative! |
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