Author: Rory Muir

July 22, 1812. Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first advance, British forces under Wellington’s command have spent the last four days maneuve...

This account of the final years of Britain's long war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France places the conflict in a new—and wholly modern—pe...

A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons—men of good family but small fortune   In Regency England the eld...

What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the ge...

What happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed?   Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen’s novels. The pursuit of husbands...

A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not j...

From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Wa...