J W Fortescue: 3 books

Originally delivered as a series of lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, Military History is an important work for any student of the military and warfare, acclaimed writer J. W. Fortescue argues that the rise and fall of civilizations has nothing to do with peace, societies, or commerce, but rather...

There is little in these lectures, or at any rate in three out of four of them, which I have not written at greater length in other volumes. I therefore publish them unwillingly, and in deference only to the wishes of some of my audience, whose good opinion I greatly value, and whose kindly sympathy...

Britain’s war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France is the topic of this panoramic 1911 work of history.  The author’s thumbnail portraits of George III, William Pitt, Henry Dundas, Edmund Burke, William Grenville, the Duke of York, George Canning, and others have been praised for their insight...