Books by Paul L. Dawson

Every uniform detailed including the famous Red Lancers' and the Empress Dragoons named in honour of the Empress Josephine.

Wakefield was originally a settlement on the River Calder in West Yorkshire, first Anglo-Saxon, then Viking controlled. After the Norman Conquest, the manor passed to the de Warenne family and Wakefield grew into an important market town in the area. In the Wars of the Roses Richard, Duke of York, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield. Wakefield's prosperity was growing as an inland port and a centre for tanning, the wool trade and coal mining. By the Industrial Revolution, Wakefield was a wealthy town, benefiting from the opening of the Aire & Calder Canal, which enabled it to trade goods, particularly grain and cloth, throughout the country. Wool mills were built in the nineteenth century and Wakefield became the administrative centre in West Riding, given city status in 1888. Although many industries closed in the later decades of the twentieth century, including its extensive coalfields, the city has embarked on a programme of regeneration, which includes the new Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, named after Wakefield-born artist Barbara Hepworth. Through successive centuries the author looks at what has shaped Wakefield's history. Illustrated throughout, this accessible historical portrait of the transformation that Wakefield has undergone through the ages will be of great interest to residents, visitors and all those with links to the city.

Wakefield at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the Yorkshire city of Wakefield over the centuries.

All three theatres of the Waterloo Campaign after Waterloo analysed - Belgium, the Rhine and the Alps.

Revelatory investigation into this key encounter and Ney s conduct at this critical period in the campaign.

A superb pictorial record of how Wakefield has changed over the last 100 years with many unpublished photographs