Jonathon Riley Bücher

The narrative explores Charles II's strategic marriage to Catherine of Braganza, which included valuable territories as part of her dowry. In exchange for military support, Charles dispatched troops to aid Portugal in its struggle for independence from Spain. The story highlights the bravery and discipline of the English and French regiments, led by Schomberg, during significant battles, while also addressing the harsh realities faced by the soldiers afterward, including inadequate pay and harsh conditions. The book aims to uncover this overlooked chapter of military history through engaging text and illustrations.

This is the biography of the most distinguished field commander of modern times, who turned to scholarship and writing at an early stage of his career and pursued both professional military life and historical study in parallel.

An account of the English soldiers who fought for the Portuguese against Spain 1662-1668. A rediscovery of a lost episode of British military history.

There are numerous personal memoirs of the fighting in Mametz Wood, Regimental Histories and battlefield guides. There is however no complete scholarly account of the Welsh Division's preparations for war and its part in the fight for Mametz as seen from both the Welsh and the German perspectives.

A prequel to The Last Ironsides describing how the troops that later went to Portugal and Tangier came to be at Dunkirk at the time of the Restoration of Charles II. The rediscovery of an episode of British military history that has been forgotten; no other modern books describe this conflict.