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Selected titles: the Battle of the Somme |
Martin Middlebrook’s The First Day on the Somme |
Best books of 2016: Waterloo General |

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Waterloo General – The Life, Letters and Mysterious Death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby 1772-1815 by John Morewood has been named as one of the Evening Standard‘s Best books of 2016.
About the book: At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had ‘rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession’, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings and Scots Greys) in a charge that wrecked a French advance that threatened Wellington with defeat. Sir William was a career soldier who had led his regiment in the decisive charge at the Battle of Salamanca and served with great distinction during the Peninsular War. Yet historians have blamed him because the charge at Waterloo got out of hand.
John Morewood uses family sources, including Sir William’s letters, as well as French and German accounts, to restore his reputation and, by shedding new light on the battle, establishes what really happen to him on that fatal afternoon. It is also a biography of a man whose bravery and professionalism distinguished him as one of the outstanding cavalry commanders of the age. |
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Most popular! This week’s bestsellers |
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor |
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Churchill’s Last Wartime Secret |
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Auschwitz and Birkenau |

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Mary Ann Cotton – Dark Angel |
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Exocet Falklands |
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The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough |

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The Battle of Copenhagen 1801 |
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The Knights Hospitaller |
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Betrayed Ally |

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Editor’s picks – SAS, SOE and Code-breaking |
SOE’s Mastermind |
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Gordon Welchman |
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Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS |
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SOE In France 1941-1945 |

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