Francis Loraine Petre Books

Francis Loraine Petre was a British military historian who gained renown for his works on the Napoleonic Wars. After retiring from the Indian Civil Service, he dedicated himself to a literary career, focusing on Napoleon's campaigns. His studies on Napoleon's conquest of Prussia and his campaigns in Poland were among the first in the English language to delve deeply into these periods. Petre's scholarship is distinguished by its analytical depth, and his writings remain valuable resources even a century later.