Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True Soldier Gentlemen | 2008 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 2 | Beat the Drums Slowly | 2011 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 3 | Send Me Safely Back Again | 2012 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 4 | All in Scarlet Uniform | 2013 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 5 | Run Them Ashore | 2014 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 6 | Whose Business is to Die | 2015 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
Adrian Goldsworthy’s Napoleonic Wars series runs six books from True Soldier Gentlemen (2008) to Whose Business is to Die (2015). The novels follow officers of the 106th Foot during the Peninsular War, where British forces fought Napoleon’s armies across Spain and Portugal.
The series brings Goldsworthy’s military history background into fiction, with detailed depictions of Napoleonic-era warfare, army life, and the chain of command. Readers who enjoy Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels will find similar territory here, filtered through a historian’s eye.