Author: Gabriele Esposito

After the Peace of Amiens was broken in 1803, Great Britain found herself at war with an old enemy (France) but also with a new competitor (Napoleo...

After the Norman conquest of 1066, the English lands gradually lost their Saxon character and became much more similar to continental Europe than p...

The Carthaginians were undoubtedly the most formidable enemies of the ever-expanding Roman Republic, due to their sophisticated and often well-led ...

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empires long spiral...

The Italian Risorgimento was the political process that led to the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom after three bloody wa...

The French Army of Napoleon could count on a brilliant mounted arm, consisting of three main types of cavalry: heavy, medium and light. The first, ...

The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular im...

The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Ca...

In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa betw...

The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked ...

This highly illustrated study examines, in detail, the brutal Paraguayan War of 186470, one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts in South America...

This guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the defi...

This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed ...