books by Ian Fletcher     books:       David McGregor's Diary Ian Fletcher Righter Publishing Company, 2005 A writer buys an old executive desk for his office. While sorting through its contents, he finds a diary written forty years ago by a man who had a torrid affair with a woman who was his wife s best friend. This journal provides a candid and touching window into one familys life almost two generations ago. The reader will be intrigued by this captivating and erotic account of a most passionate love affair and its unexpected finale.             Galloping At Everything..The British Cavalry In The Peninsular War And At Waterloo 1808-15 Ian Fletcher Stackpole Books, 1999 301 Pages             Peninsula War; Aspects of the Struggle for the Iberian Peninsula2 reviews Edited by Ian Fletcher Spellmount Publishers, 2003 Facets of the Fight Editor Ian Fletcher has assembled a wealth of talent including David Chandler, Paddy Griffiths, Charles Esdaile and others, to discuss a number of Peninsular topics to include POWs, the Portugese Army, the guerrillas, and siege warfare. I especially recommend my friend Jack Gill's chapter on Napoleon's German allies in Spain. Fletcher includes a bibliographic essay on Wellington's army as well as ...             The Mid-Life Crisis of Paul Revere Ian Fletcher Righter Publishing Company, 2005 In Ian Fletcher s second book, Paul Revere has achieved an enviable situation in life. He is doing well in his job. His children are grown and gainfully employed. He works, hunts, fishes and occasionally he and his wife, Gwen make love. Life is good until Gwen develops a severe case of Empty Nest Syndrome. All of a sudden she is dissatisfied with everything in her life, including her husband who doesn t get it. Before he knows it they are ...             Bloody Albuera: The 1811 Campaign in the Peninsular1 review Ian Fletcher Crowood, 2001 A fine narrative of the 1811 British campaign Ian Fletcher's "Bloody Albuera" combines solid narrative on the 1811 Anglo-Portuguese campaign in the Peninsular War with a lavish variety of illustrations and remarkably clear battle diagrams. The introduction quickly places the reader in the context of the 1808-1814 Peninsular War to liberate Portugal and Spain from the Imperial French Army. Following are chapters on each of the key battles ...             War in the Crimea: An Illustrated History Ian Fletcher, Natalia Ishchenko The History Press, 2009 On March 28, 1854, Queen Victoria?s government announced that Britain had declared war on Russia.  Few conflicts have provoked as much debate as The Crimean War, with details right down to the name and date of it remaining discussion points for historians. This illustrated history gives a unique and exciting pictorial insight into the war, presenting illustrations from one of the early pioneers of photography Roger Fenton alongside artist ...             Insolvency in Private International Law (Oxford Private International Law Series) Ian Fletcher Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 This book deals with the problems generated by those cases of insolvency (either of an individual or of a company) involving more than one system of law, that bring into operation the principles and methods of private international law. The author provides guidance on the ways in which workable solutions to practical problems can be achieved using national and international remedies now available, including assistance available from foreign ...             Lines of Torres Vedras 1809-111 review Ian Fletcher Osprey Publishing, 2003 Is There Really an Impregnable Defense? Although the Peninsula War of 1809-1814 has attracted a great deal of attention from historians, the extensive fortifications built in Portugal and known as the Lines of Torres Vedras have received very little attention. As Peninsula War expert Ian Fletcher notes in Osprey's Fortress volume #7 on that subject, only two previous books have focused specifically on these defenses which were so ...             Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Penninsular War and at Waterloo 1808-15 Ian Fletcher The History Press LTD, 2008             The Waters of Oblivion: The British Invasion of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-1807 Ian Fletcher Spellmount, 2006 On 7th July 1807 Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke stood amidst the burning wreckage of some houses in Buenos Aires as he contemplated the terms of a surrender document to which he was about to put his name. It was the final act in Britain's disastrous attempt to add the Spanish colony of the Rio de la Plata to the possessions of His Britannic Majesty King George III. After two days of intense street fighting, the British army had been forced ...             In Hell Before Daylight: The Siege and Storming of the Fortress of Badajoz, 1812 Ian Fletcher The History Press, 2008 Together with Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz was one of the great fortress cities that commanded the two routes between Spain and Portugal, and together they were known as the Keys of Spain during the Peninsular War. Rodrigo was the first to fall in January 1812, and the following month Wellington's men began to slip away southwards to lay siege to Badajoz. The city had been attacked twice before by the British, but a lack of proper siege materials had ...             Vittoria 1813: Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Ian Fletcher Praeger Publishers, 2005 Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. After occupying Madrid Wellington's troops were repulsed at Burgos. The subsequent retreat in October and November 1812 was accompanied by all the miseries that had characterised Sir John Moore's famous retreat to Corunna in the winter of 1808-09. Those soldiers who endured both declared that the retreat from ...             European Imperialism: 1830 to 1930 (Problems in European Civilization Series)1 review Alice L. Conklin, Ian Christopher Fletcher Wadsworth Publishing, 1998 A good book if you are interested in European Imperialism As much of the books in the Problems in European Civilization Series, this book is great for people who have gone through history classes wishing to understand a period, aspect or event in history better. This book deals with many of the major theories on the cause of european imperialism and why it is that it ultimately failed (there are even writings from Lenin and Ghandi in this book on the ...             Fortresses of the Peninsular War 1808-14 (Fortress) Ian Fletcher Osprey Publishing, 2003 In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington?s army fought several hard battles and smaller actions, but it was the bloody sieges that troubled him more than anything else. Indeed, the performance of his army during the sieges was probably the most disappointing aspect of what was otherwise an extremely successful campaign. Taking 1808 as its starting point, this title deals with the fortress sieges that involved Wellington?s Anglo­Portuguese ...              search for books 1806-1807, 1808-15, albuera, campaign, cavalry, civilization, daylight, european, everything, fortress, fortresses, galloping, illustrated, imperialism, insolvency, international, invasion, mcgregor, mid-life, military, oblivion, peninsula, peninsular, penninsular, problems, storming, struggle, vittoria, waterloo, wellington books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Saitek-GM2400 Laser Mouse-Grey (PM40A) (Windows) we recommend A fine narrative of the 1811 British campaign leave a comment home  impressum - about us