Original Archive Material
relating to the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of
Wellington
1793-1815
Including the Battle of
Waterloo
A great deal has been written about the
Napoleonic wars over the last two centuries and
there is a tendency to think that nothing
new can be written upon the subject; but nothing could be
further from the truth.
The Gareth Glover Collection
has been instigated to bring new and thought provoking
information regarding this rich and spectacular period of
our history into the public domain.
The publication of
this original archival material, makes available to
researchers and military enthusiasts alike, a mass
of first hand information without the very time
consuming and costly visits to the hundreds of archives
around the world in which this material is housed.
The Gareth
Glover Collection
The
collection already numbers well over 20 titles,
published in cooperation with various
publishing companies, but forming in total, a magnificent and
unsurpassed collection of primary source material,
written by a mixture of all ranks and from
every arm available to the
Napoleonic general, infantry, cavalry, artillery, medical
and support services. The collection is by no means complete
and it is intended to extend it to many dozens of
titles yet!
View
forthcoming works in What's
New and present titles under
the various campaigns listed.
Whilst researching, Gareth discovered many
discrepancies between
what was accepted as established
fact in histories of the period and the information
given in the various letters and journals written by the
participants themselves often whilst actually on
campaign.
He
realised that the archives of Great Britain, and those of
continental Europe were brim full of original
documentation, never previously published including letters,
journals and reports which contained much information on this
period, but lay virtually ignored, the ink gradually growing
fainter, the paper more fragile, until we are in danger of
losing them.
But more
than anything else, every piece of evidence he found,
even the most bland of letter, changed his view of the
history of this period, sometimes only a little; sometimes
very significantly.
Readers of
this collection will come to realise that there is much we
have to learn yet regarding this period of history.
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