David Crane

How we beat Napoleon

Two new books show that, from Wellington to dockyard workers, everyone was engaged in the long war effort

  • Britain Against Napoleon: The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815

    Roger Knight

    Allen Lane, pp. 677

  • Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814

    Rory Muir

    Yale, pp. 672

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