I’ve been meaning for a while to put together a bibliography of the sources I’ve used for writing my books. I know that a lot of my readers enjoy learning more about the campaigns after reading the novels and I hope this will be helpful to them. It will also be helpful to me if I need to revisit anything.
This is not a formal academic bibliography, so I’ve not necessarily used academic citations, but have tried to make it as easy as possible to find the sources. Where possible, I’ve included a link either to Amazon or to the source itself if it’s available online. This is an ongoing project and I’ll be adding to it regularly. If anybody is aware of a book or a source which they think might be of interest, please e-mail or message me with the details.
| Author | Title | Pub date | Which books used for |
| Alexander, Caroline | The Bounty | 2003 | The Manxman series, for general navy background. |
| Anonymous | Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First Regiment | 1822 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| Army Records Society | At Wellington’s Right Hand: the letters of Lt-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon 1808-1815 | The Peninsular War Saga | |
| Beatson, F C | Wellington and the Pyrenees Campaign: Vol 1 From Vitoria to the Bidassoa | 1914 | An Indomitable Brigade |
| Blake, Nicholas | Steering to Glory: a day in the life of a ship of the line | 2005 | The Manxman series |
| Bond, Gordon | The Grand Expedition: the British invasion of Holland in 1809 | 1979 | This Blighted Expedition |
| Brunet, Prades and Zar | 1811: El setge de Tarragona | This Bloody Shore ( This is a children’s comic book in Spanish but proved very useful for maps and general details of the town in 1811) | |
| Card, Tim | Eton Established: a history from 1440 to 1860 | 2001 | Eton Mess (short story) |
| Cardoza, Thomas | Intrepid Women: Cantinieres and Vivandieres of the French Army | 2010 | This Bloody Shore and An Indomitable Brigade |
| Codrington | Memoir of the Life of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington (2 volumes) | 1873 | This Blighted Expedition
This Bloody Shore |
| Crumplin, Michael | Men of Steel: Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars | The Peninsular War Saga and the Manxman Series | |
| Cust, Lionel | A History of Eton College | 1899 | Eton Mess (short story) |
| Divall, Carole | Wellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813 | 2021 | An Indomitable Brigade |
| Elting, John R | Swords around a Throne | 1997 | This Bloody Shore
An Indomitable Brigade |
| Esdaile, Charles | Women in the Peninsular War | 2014 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| Fletcher, Ian | Vittoria 1813 | 1998 | An Indomitable Brigade |
| Holmes, Richard | Redcoat | 2001 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| Howard, Martin R | Walcheren 1809: the scandalous destruction of a British army | 2012 | This Blighted Expedition |
| Griffith, Robert | Riflemen: The History of the 5th Battalion, 60th (Royal American) Regiment – 1797-1818 | 2019 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| King, Dean | Every Man Will do his Duty | 1997 | This Bloody Shore |
| Lemmings, David | Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700-1850 | General background about legal matters | |
| Lemmings, David | Professors of the Law: barristers and legal culture in the eighteenth century | 2000 | General background about barristers and legal matters |
| Limm, Andrew | Walcheren to Waterloo: the British army in the Low Countries during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars 1793-1815 | 2018 | This Blighted Expedition |
| Lipscombe, Nick | the Peninsular War Atlas | The Peninsular War Saga | |
| Lipscombe, Nick | Wellington’s Eastern Front | 2016 | This Bloody Shore |
| McGrigor, Sir James | The Scalpel and the Sword | 2000 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| Maughan, A M | Young Pitt (fiction) | 1974 | Some issues with the history, but good for getting a sense of the period politically |
| Maughan, A M | The King’s Malady (fiction) | 1978 | Some issues with the history, but good for getting a sense of the period politically |
| Midgley, Graham | University Life in Eighteenth Century Oxford | 1996 | Background reading for Paul and Carl |
| Munch-Petersen, Thomas | Defying Napoleon: how Britain bombarded Copenhagen and seized the Danish fleet in 1807 | 2007 | An Unwilling Alliance |
| Nixon, Cheryl L | The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature | 2011 | This Bloody Shore |
| Oman, Sir Charles | Atlas of the Peninsular War | All books | |
| Oman, Sir Charles | History of the Peninsular War (7 volumes) | 1922 | All books |
| Payne, Reider | War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era | 2019 | Peninsular War Saga |
| Pope, Dudley | Life in Nelson’s Navy | 1997 | The Manxman series |
| Popham, Hugh | A Damned Cunning Fellow: the eventful life of Rear-Admiral Sir Home Popham KCB, KCH, KM, FRS 1762-1820 | 1991 | An Unwilling Alliance
This Blighted Expedition An Unmerciful Incursion |
| Rodger, N A M | The Wooden World: an anatomy of the Georgian navy | 1988 | The Manxman series |
| Runnebaum, Julius | General Graf Carl von Alten: ein Soldat Europas | 1964 | The Peninsular War Saga |
| Reiter, Jacqueline | The Late Lord: the life of John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | 2017 | This Blighted Expedition |
| Salas, D J D | El Sitio de Tarragona | 1882 | This Bloody Shore |
| Schaumann, August | On the Road with Wellington | 1924 | An Indomitable Brigade |
| Wareham, Tom | The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars | 2001 | The Manxman series |
| Wheeler, William | The Letters of Private Wheeler 1809-1828 | 1951 | The Peninsular War Saga and This Blighted Expedition. |
| Willis, Sam | Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: the art of sailing warfare | 2008 | The Manxman series |
