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Napoleonic Titles
from Spellmount in 2002

by Paul Chamberlain

This publisher has a number of titles planned for 2002. In the spring, they will publish Military Memoirs of Four Brothers by The Survivor (Thomas Fernyhough) with an introduction by Philip Haythornthwaite. This will be a further title in the Spellmount Library of Military History, priced at £24.95 hardback. It is the memoirs of the four Fernyhough brothers, who were natives of Staffordshire and served in the Americas, Europe and Africa during the Napoleonic Wars. The spring of next year also sees the publication of Wellington’s Doctors by Martin Howard (£20.00 hardback). This will be the first comprehensive account of the crucial role played by the British Army doctors in the Napoleonic Wars. Wellington himself was the first British general to praise doctors in dispatches but the medical contribution to these British campaigns has been largely overlooked - until now. This definitive book, drawing on rare first-hand accounts, fills a large gap in the social and military history of the period.

The autumn sees a number of interesting titles. Keith Bartlett will be the author of A Most Complete Machine: The Development of the British Army during the War with France, 1783-1815. Wellington’s most complete machine that triumphed at Waterloo in 1815 was a far cry from the army that suffered crushing defeats in 1783. In the first academic reappraisal of the British Army in thirty years, Dr Bartlett argues that the victory was as much to do with the development of modern government as with the playing fields of Eton. The price will be £20.00 hardback. Armies of 1812: The Grand Armée and the Armies of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Turkey by Digby Smith (£20.00 paperback) will be an in-depth analysis of all the armies involved in this epic tragedy, part of which was originally published in 1977 to critical and public acclaim. This fuller version includes many primary historical sources never before translated into English.

Notes on the Battle of Waterloo by General Sir James Shaw Kennedy was first published in 1865. This is a facsimile (£19.95 hardback) of an extremely rare and lively account of the Battle of Waterloo by the Quartermaster-general of general Baron Alten’s 3rd Division. Kennedy is credited with inventing a new tactic for formations of infantry to withstand cavalry onslaughts. For more information and a copy of Spellmount’s 2001/ 2002 catalogue visit their website at www.spellmount.com

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