Author: Charles J. Esdaile

The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe tha...

So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from ...

Napoleon's forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest front...

Charles Esdaile's new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and d...

Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment t...