Charles J. Esdaile

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Professor Charles J. Esdaile is one of the leading historians of the Napoleonic era and holds a personal chair at the University of Liverpool. His wide-ranging history of Napoleon's attempt to conquer Spain and Portugal, The Peninsular War: A New History, and his international history of the Napoleonic period, Napoleon’ s Wars, are classic works on the subject. In addition to his many articles and books on the Peninsular War and the Napoleonic Wars in general, he has made a special study of the Waterloo campaign.