| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Fernyhough, T. | Military Memoirs of Four Brothers | William Sams, 1829 | Yes [Spellmount] | Home | Memoirs of Thomas (60th, 40th), John (Marines), Henry (Marines) and Robert (Marines, 95th) Fernyhough compiled by Thomas (the only survivor). |
| Fitchett, WH | How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War (1793-1815) Vol 1 | Smith Elder & Co, 1899 | No | Home | A somewhat parochial history of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, at the time still known as "The Great War". From the Low Countries to Egypt. |
| Fitchett, WH | How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War (1793-1815) Vol 3 | Smith Elder & Co, 1900 | No | Home | Covers the Peninsular War |
| Fitchett, WH | How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War (1793-1815) Vol 4 | Smith Elder & Co, 1899 | No | Home | From the fall of San Sebastion to Waterloo | Fitchett, WH | Wellington's Men | George Bell & Sons, London, 1900 | No | FR 942.073 F | Contains condensations of: Kincaid: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Harris: Recollections of Rifleman Harris Anton: Retrospective of a Military Life Mercer: Journal of the Waterloo Campaign |
| Fletcher, I | Badajoz 1812 | Osprey, 1999 | Yes | Home | Fletcher's trilogy on the 1812-1-13 campaigns. Covers Ciudad Rodrigo to the aftermath of Vittoria. |
| Fletcher, I | Salamanca 1812 | Osprey, 1997 | Yes | Home | |
| Fletcher, I | Vittoria 1813 | Osprey, 1998 | Yes | Home | |
| Fletcher, I | Voices from the Peninsular | Greenhill, 2001 | Yes | Home | Good selections from original sources, but the linking narrative is a bit slapdash from someone of Fletcher's calibre, and the editor was careless (to put it nicely). | Fletcher, I | The Lines of Torres Vedras 1809-11 | Osprey, 2003 | Yes | Home | Design, construction, Massena's invasion | Fletcher, I | Fortresses of the Peninsular War 1808-14 | Osprey, 2003 | Yes | Home | Only covers those attacked by the British! |
| Fortescue, JW | A History of the British Army V 7 | Macmillan & Co 1912 | No | 942/106 v.7 |
Covers all operations in the period plus looks at the influence of home politics on the operations. Superb maps (in seperate volumes)! Vol 7: 1809-10 (inc. the Walcheren Exp and Tarifa) Vol 8: 1811-1812 (Mainly Spain, start of the American War) |
| Fortescue, JW | A History of the British Army V 7 (Maps) | Macmillan & Co 1912 | No | 942/106 s01/2 | |
| Fortescue, JW | A History of the British Army V 8 | Macmillan & Co 1917 | No | 942/106 v.8 | |
| Fortescue, JW | A History of the British Army V 8 (Maps) | Macmillan & Co 1917 | No | 942/106 s01/3 | |
| Fortescue, JW | A History of the British Army V 9 & 10 (Maps) | Macmillan & Co 1920 | No | 942/106 s01/4 | |
| Fosten, B | Wellington's Infantry 1 | Osprey 1981 | Yes | Home | The line regiments of the British Army |
| Fosten, B | Wellington's Infantry 2 | Osprey 1982 | Yes | Home | Light regiments, especially the Rifles |
| Fraser, E | The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led | Methuen, London, 1913 | No | FR 946.06 F | Quite good descriptions of some campaigns. Tales of exploring officers including John Waters and Colquhoun Grant. |
| Fremont-Barnes, G | The Napoleonic Wars: The Peninsular War 1807-1814 | Osprey 2002 | No | Home | Brief overview, one of Osprey's "Essential Histories" series |
| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Gates, D | The British Light Infantry Arm, c. 1790-1815 | Batsford, 1987 | No | Home | Very interesting book on how light infantry developed in the British Army. Good study of the sources of the training. |
| Gates, D | The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War | Allen & Unwin, 1986 | Yes [Pimlico, 2001] | Home | Aims to be less anglo-centric than other recent volumes. |
| Gates, D | The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 | Arnold, 1997 | Yes [Pimlico, 2003] | Home | After Gates' characteristic introductory blast at fellow historians, settles down to become a readable overview of the Napoleonic era, setting the campaigns in their socio-economic surroundings. |
| Glover, M | Wellington as Military Commander | Batsford 1968 | Yes [Penguin] | Home | Excellent description of the structure of the British Army |
| Glover, M | The Peninsular War 1807-1814 A Concise Military History |
David & Charles 1974 | Yes [Penguin] | Home | The emphasis is on Wellington's campaigns: very informative appendices |
| Glover, M | Wellington's Army | David & Charles 1977 | No | FR355.00941/11 | As with Oman, so with Glover - research into the war spawned a mass of information on the army. Not an attempt to replace Oman's work, but to update areas where research has moved forward, V. Good. |
| Glover, R | Peninsular Preparation | Cambridge, 1963 | Yes [?] | FR355.0942/41 | Excellent study of the way in which the British army changed from 1793 to 1809 under the guidance of the Duke of York. | Grattan, W. | Adventures with the Connaught Rangers: 1809-1814 | 1902 | Yes [Greenhill] | Home | One of Picton's regiments |
| Grehan, J | The Lines of Torres Vedras | Spellmount 2000 | Yes | Home | Not much about the engineering, more about the strategic and political implications. |
| Guedalla, P | The Duke | World Books, 1940 (FP 1931) | Yes [Wordsworth Military Library] | FR 942.07 WEL, Home | Good, if old and slightly jingoistic, bio, well written, interested in formative influences |
| Hamilton, T (published anon) | Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns v1 | Blackwood, Edinburgh 1829 | No | FR 946.06 H | An early history by an old soldier of the 29th, who landed at the Mondego with Wellington, and left with his regiment after Albuerra. Interesting for the descriptions of the battles in which he took part. |
| Hamilton, T (published anon) | Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns v2 | Blackwood, Edinburgh 1829 | No | FR 946.06 H | |
| Hamilton, T (published anon) | Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns v3 | Blackwood, Edinburgh 1829 | No | FR 946.06 H | |
| Hamilton Smith, C & Haythornthwaite, PJ | Wellington's Army: The Uniforms of the British Soldier, 1812-1815 | Greenhill Books, 2002 | Yes [] | Home | Drool... Contemporary prints by CHS with modern commentary by PJH - worth every dollar! |
| Harris, B (Ed Hibbert) | The Recollections of Rifleman Harris | Yes [Windrush Press] | FR 940.270924/6 (missing) Home | A rifleman under Moore and at Walcheren. A top ranker. | |
| Harvey, B | The Rifle Brigade | Leo Cooper, London,1975 | No [Old stock only] | FR 356.110941/6, Home | Very brief history, with commensurately small section on the Napoleonic era. |
| Haswell, CJD ("Jock") | Spies and Spymasters: A concise history of intelligence | Thames and Hudson, 1977 | No | FR 327.1209/3 | Good chapter on Wellington's intelligence service |
| Hattersley, R | Nelson | Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1974 | No | Home | Illustrated Bio |
| Haythornthwaite, P | Napoleon's Line Infantry | Osprey 1983 | Yes | Home | A Brief summary of a very complex subject. |
| Haythornthwaite, P | Napoleon's Light Infantry | Osprey 1983 | Yes | Home | The "Legers" rather than the "Lignes" |
| Haythornthwaite, P | Weapons & Equipment of the Napoleonic Wars | Arms & Armour 1996 | Yes | Home | Excellent! |
| Haythornthwaite, PJ | Napoleon's Military Machine | Spellmount 1988 | Yes | Home | Another good book from PJH |
| Haythornthwaite, P | Corunna 1809 | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home | |
| Haythornthwaite, P | British Rifleman, 1797-1815 | Osprey 2002 | Yes | Home | Looks at the origins, and the extent to which rifles were issued in the British Army, plus what they did and the ambivalent attitude (even amongst themselves) towards sniping. |
| Hibbert, C | Corunna | Batsford 1961; Pan 1967 | Yes [Wordsworth Military Library, Windrush] | FR 940.27/79, Home | Good with maps and units involved |
| Hibbert, C | Wellington, A Personal History | Harper Collins, 1997 | Yes | Home | The emphasis is on the man, not the commander |
| Hofschroer, P | Lutzen & Bautzen 1813 | Osprey 2001 | Yes | Home | Hofschroer's pigeon pair on the 1813 German campaign, looks at L&B where Napoleon came close to regaining his empire and why Leipzig is really Napoleon's Waterloo :-) Good |
| Hofschroer, P | Leipzig 1813 | Osprey 1993 | Yes | Home | |
| Hollins, D | Marengo 1800 | Osprey | Yes | Home | What really happened (not Napoleon's myth) |
| Horne, A | How Far from Austerlitz | St Martin's Griffin, 1998 | Yes | Borrowed | Uneven mix of seemingly good, in-depth analysis, rehashed mythology and downright historical error! I expected more from Horne. |
| Howarth, D | Waterloo: A Near Run Thing | Collins 1968; Fontana 1972 | Yes [Windrush] | FR 940.27/82, Home | Not a description of the battle, more what it was like to be a soldier in it. |
| Holmes, R | Redcoat | Harper Collins 2001 | Yes [] | Home | British soldiers from c.1760 to the Crimean War |
| Holmes, R | Wellington: The Iron Duke | Harper Collins 2003 | Yes [] | Home | Companion to the TV series, an analysis of Wellington's character and abilities. |
| Hughes, BP | Firepower: Weapons effectiveness on the battlefield, 1630-1850 | Arms & Armour, 1974 | Yes [Spellmount/Sarpedon] | FR 355.820903/1, Home | An artilleryman's view of longarms! I picked this up, cheap, in a marvellous bookshop in Houston. |
| Johnson, P. | Napoleon | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 | Yes [Phoenix] | Home | Definitely not an admirer of Napoleon's ethics. |
| Jones, JT | Journal of Sieges carried on by The Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain ... Volume 3 | John Weale, 1846 | No | FR942.073/J | This is the later edition, which includes (in this volume) the description of the "Lines", plus his memorandum on how to blow up Roman bridges! |
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