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J Kincaid: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade. Modern reprint by Pen & Sword Books. Image courtesy of Pen & Sword Books.

Author	Title	Published	In Print	Location	Comment
Keegan, J.	The Mask of Command	Jonathan Cape, 1987	Yes [Pimlico 1999]	Home	Comparative study of Alexander, Wellington, Grant and Hitler. Interesting slant: Wellington as anti-hero
Kincaid, J	Adventures in the Rifle Brigade	First Published 1830	Yes [Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword]	FR [see Fitchett], Home	A great read from a great soldier
Kincaid, J	Random Shots from a Rifleman	First Published 1835	Yes [Spellmount]	Home	Another great read from Johnny Kincaid
Larpent, FS	The Private Journal of Judge-Advocate Larpent	Bentley, London, 1853	Yes [Spellmount]	Home	The young lawyer who became Judge-Advocate to Wellington's Army in 1812. His first hand impressions of Wellington are unequalled in their candour.
Lehmann, J	Remember You are an Englishman	Jonathan Cape, 1977	No	Home	Bio of Harry Smith with a strong South African slant
Le Marchant, D (Ed)	Memoirs of the Late Major General Le Marchant, 1766-1812	1841	Yes [Spellmount]	Home	The story of the man who changed British Cavalry from amateurs to professionals, and then helped found the Military Colleges in Britain
Leonard, N	Wellington's Army: Recreated in Colour Photographs	Europa, 1995	Yes	Home	Photos of reenactors
Lewis, JE	The Mammoth Book of Soldiers at War	Robinson, 2001	Yes	Home	Selections from letters, diaries and memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars: Coignet, Robertson, Harris, Fenton, Macdonald, Tomkinson, Grattan, etc.
Longford, E	Wellington: The Years of the Sword	Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1969	Yes []	FR 942.07092/5, Home	THE Biography by a distant relative (hence access to family papers). Brings out the complexity of Wellington's character.
Longford, E	Wellington: Pillar of State	Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1972	Yes []	FR, Home
Luvaas, J	Napoleon on the Art of War	Touchstone, 1999	Yes	Home	WARNING: This book could be misleading as the author has conflated quotes from different sources into single paragraphs
Manningham, C.	Regulations for The Rifle Corps	T. Egerton, 1800	No	Home	Fascinating insight into what a forward military thinker felt about army structure - Thanks Sol
Manningham, C.	Military Lectures delivered to the Officers of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment	T. Egerton, 1803	Yes [Ken Trotman]	Home	Light infantry practice. Modern edition published with de Brack's Light Cavalry Out-Posts./TD>
Marbot, J-P de (Ed Summerville)	The Exploits of Baron de Marbot	Constable, 2000	Yes[]	Home	A French officer under Napoleon, I've seen it described as "autolatrous" and it is!
Marcel, N (Ed Var)	Campagnes du Capitaine Marcel	Paris, 1913	No	FR 946.06 M	What is was like fighting in the Peninsular, en Francais
Marshall-Cornwall, J.	Napoleon as Military Commander	Batsford, 1967	Yes [Penguin]	Home	M-C doesn't strike me as an open minded observer...
Maxwell, WH	Peninsular Sketches V 1	Colburn, London, 1845	No	FR942.073/M	A series of short narratives by Peninsular veterans collected and placed in chronological order by Maxwell. Fairly well regarded by historians, though some of the authors are anonymous.
Maxwell, WH	Peninsular Sketches V 2	Colburn, London, 1845	No	FR942.073/M
Muir, R.	Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon: 1807-1815	Yale University Press, 1996	Yes	Home	All aspects of British resistance
Napier, G	Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir George T Napier, K.C.B.	Murray, London, 1884	No	Home	Extracts from the memoirs he wrote for his children around 1828. Not a Rifleman, but a Light Bob.
Napier, W	History of the War in the Peninsular v 3	Boone, London, 1833	No	FR 942.073 N	This is part of the 4 volume 2nd Edition
Neal, WK & Back, DHL	Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790	Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975	No	FR 739.740941/2	Twigg and Bass, gun makers
Nosworthy, B	Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies	Constable 1995	Yes?	Home	Analysis of tactics based on contemporay sources

Oman's History of the Peninsular War, volumes 1-4, reprinted by Greenhill in 1996. Image courtesy of Greenhill Books.

Oman, C	Nelson	Hodder & Stoughton, 1947, Sphere, 1967	No	Home	Nice biography
Author	Title	Published	In Print	Location	Comment
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War V1	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1902	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	THE history (7 Vols) 1807-1809
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War V2	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1903	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Jan 1809-Sep 1809
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War V3	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1908	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Sep 1809 - Dec 1810
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War V4	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Dec 1810-Dec 1811
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War V	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Oct 1811-Aug 1812
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War VI	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Sep 1812-Aug 1813
Oman, CWC	A History of the Peninsular War VII	Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930	Yes [Greenhill Books]	FR 946.06 O, Home	Aug 1813-April 1814
Oman, CWC	Wellington's Army: 1809-1814	Edward Arnold, London, 1912	Yes[Greenhill] (Maybe out of stock)	FR 942.073/90, Home	A must, packed with detail

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