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Historical person
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal and one of Napoleon’s most determined opponents. His army’s arrival at Waterloo in 1815 was decisive in the final defeat of Napoleon’s forces.
Griff Hosker’s Chasseur À Cheval places Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty and military command and battlefield decision-making. Simon Scarrow’s The Fields of Death places Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making and empire, conquest and resistance. Other novels featuring Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher include Griff Hosker’s 1808, Griff Hosker’s Bloody Badajoz, Griff Hosker’s British Light Dragoon, Griff Hosker’s Napoleon’s Guard, and Griff Hosker’s Soldier Spy (the Napoleonic Horseman Book 4).
Series
The quartet traces the parallel lives of Arthur Wellesley and Napoleon Bonaparte from their births in 1769 to the Battle of Waterloo. It follows their military education, political ambition and campaigns across Europe, India and the Mediterranean as two very different officers become the defining commanders of the…
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Napoleonic Horseman follows a cavalryman through the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The series moves between French and British service, espionage, the Peninsular War, sieges and Waterloo, using mounted warfare to show how individual soldiers are pulled through the largest conflicts of the age.
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