| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Parkinson, R. | The Hussar General: The Life of Blücher, Man of Waterloo | Purnell Book Services, 1975 | Yes [Wordsworth] | Home | Rare English language biography of an ally |
| Pericoli, U & Glover, M | 1815: The Armies at Waterloo | Seely, Service & Co (Pen & Sword) 1973 | No | Concord Library 940.27/PER/1 | Research by costume designer for the movie |
| Pimlott, J. | Guiness History of the British Army | Guiness, 1993 | No | Home | Brief overview |
| Pivka, O v. | The King's German Legion | Osprey 1974 | Yes (limited reprint) | Home | Limited, early Osprey, but for years all that was available in English. |
| Pivka, O v. | The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars | Osprey 1977 | Yes (limited reprint) | Home | Ditto above, but add that it was ALL that was available. |
| Richards, DS | The Peninsular Veterans | Macdonald & Jane's, 1975 | No | FR 940.27/14 | Disappointing |
| Reid, S | Wellington's Army in the Peninsular 1809-14 | Osprey 2004 | Yes | Home | Structure & organisation. Mostly an abridged, graphical presentation of the information in the appendix of Oman's "Wellington's Army" |
| Roberts, A | Napoleon and Wellington | Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 | Yes | Home | A look at what the two men thought of each other through the years (when they thought at all). |
| Robertson, IC | Wellington at War in the Peninsular, 1808-1814 | Leo Cooper 200 | Yes | Home | An overview for the tourist with lots of maps, old and new |
| Robinson, CW | Wellington's Campaigns, 1808-1815, and Moore's Campaign of Corunna, Vol 1 | Hugh Rees Ltd, 1906 | No | FR 942.07 R | Military text book analysis of the campaigns particularly topographic influences, old fashioned anglo-centric view of the Spanish but good topographical analyses for the campaigns. |
| Robinson, C. W. | Wellington's Campaigns, 1808-1815, and Moore's Campaign of Corunna, Vol 2 | Hugh Rees Ltd, 1907 | No | FR 942.07 R | |
| Rothenberg, G. | The Napoleonic Wars | Cassell, 1999 | Yes [Cassell, 2001] | Home | Brief overview of the whole 23 years (Revolutionary as well as Napoleonic), with expected oversimplifications and the odd error. |
| Sherer, M. | Recollections of the Peninsular | 1823 | Yes[Spellmount] | Home | One of the first memoirs to be published, predating Southey and Napier. A soldier in the 34th, Sherer aimed more at illustrating the life of a soldier than at history. Despite that his description of Albuera is one of the best. |
| Simmons, G (Ed Verner) | A British Rifle Man | A & C Black, London, 1899 | Yes[Greenhill, Naval & Military Press] | FR 940.8 S Home |
A typical career officer, the value of this work lies in the fact that it is composed of contemporary journal entries and letters. |
| Skennerton, ID | Australian Service Longarms | Skennerton, 1975 | No | FR 739.7409/3 | Good descriptions of the Brown Bess patterns |
| Smith, D | Borodino | Windrush 1998 | Yes | Home | Brief work on a big subject. |
| Smith, Maj-Gen Sir H (Ed with addns GC Moore-Smith) | Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith Vol 1 | John Murray, London, 1902 | No | FR 355.094208/2 | To 1829, memoirs, dates unreliable |
| Smith, Maj-Gen Sir H (Ed with addns GC Moore-Smith) | Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819 | London, 1910 | Yes [Constable] | FR 355.094208/2, Home | An abbreviated version of Vol 1 of the biography |
| Surtees, W | Twenty-Five Years In The Rifle Brigade | 1828 | Yes [Greenhill Books] | Home | A ranker who successfully made the jump |
| Author | Title | Published | In Print | Location | Comment |
| Tench, W | Letters from Revolutionary France | University of Wales Press 2001 | Yes | Home | An Aussie connection: Watkin Tench was a Lieutenant of Marine in the First Fleet and wrote the first description of Sydney. He was later captured by the French. |
| Tomkinson, W. | The Diary of a Cavalry Officer 1809-15 | Swan Sonnenschein, 1894 | Yes [Spellmount] | Home | Once again, the value lies in the fact that this is from a journal. |
| Urban, M | The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes | Faber & Faber, 2001 | Yes | Home | The story of George Scovell and how he broke the French military codes |
| Urban, M | Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters | Faber & Faber, 2003 | Yes | Home | Follows the 1st Battalkon of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular from 1809 |
| Verner, W | History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade 1800-1813: V1 1800-1809 | c. 1913 | Yes [N&MP] | Home | Detailed history of the Rifles from their formation to Vittoria. Unfortunately Verner died before writing the third in the series |
| Verner, W | History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade 1800-1813: V2 1809-1813 | c. 1913 | Yes [N&MP] | Home | |
| Wason, D | Battlefield Detectives | Granada 2003 | Yes [] | Home | Book of a TV series with a Chapter/Episode on Waterloo. Looks at how the battlefield has changed (the construction of the Lion mound lowered the ridge and significantly weakened the position), why the artillery had so much trouble (the guns would have gradually dug themselves into the mud), and was Ney mad (would have probably been classified as shell-shocked today). |
| Weller, J | Wellington in India | ?Nicholas Vane, London, 1972 | Yes [Greenhill Books] | FR, Home | A very analytical series (Weller was an Engineer) looking at what information Wellington had and how this influenced his decisions. |
| Weller, J | Wellington in the Peninsular | Nicholas Vane, London, 1962 | Yes [Greenhill Books] | FR 942.07 WEL, Home | |
| Weller, J | Wellington at Waterloo | Longman's, London, 1967 | Yes [Greenhill Books] | Home | |
| Weller, J | On Wellington: The Duke and his Art of War | Greenhill, 1998 | Yes | Home | Commemorative collection of essays, including ones on W's intelligence and engineering sections | Wheeler, W (Ed Liddell Hart) |
The Letters of Private Wheeler, 1809-1828 | Michael Joseph, 1951 | Yes | FR942.073/WHE | Discovered in 1948, this amazing collection is a geniune contemporary record of life in the ranks. |
| Wilkinson, F | Antique Firearms | Guinness Superlatives, 1969 | No | FR 739.7409/5/1 | Covers the flintlock |
| Wilkinson, F | Antique Guns and Gun Collecting | Hamlyn, 1974 | No | FR 739.7409/2 | Ditto |
| Wilkinson-Latham, C | The Royal Green Jackets | Osprey 1975 | Yes [limited reprint] | Home | Limited amount on the Napoleonic period |
| Wootten, G | Waterloo 1815 | Osprey, 1992 | Yes | Home | Good overview |
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