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NAPOLEON I, Correspondance générale de Napoléon: volume 1: Les apprentissages 1784-1797
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Description: This first volume of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon, published by the Fondation Napoléon, contains 2283 letters written between 1784 and 1797. As a result of three years of searching in French and other national archives, not to mention the collaboration of private collectors, Napoleon students and enthusiasts can now read either previously unpublished letters or letters previously published in expurgated fashion during the Second Empire. Since each letter is annotated, this edition can rightfully be considered as the latest word on the subject.
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Place and publisher: Paris: Editions Fayard
Date of publication: 2004
Number of pages: 1469
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Nelson is a household name in Britain, the man who won the Battle of Trafalgar and established British naval supremacy for 100 years. His career was full of such impressive victories, and his boldness and dramatic initiative were renowned and controversial both in his own time and today.
This book studies his career as an admiral, examining not just Trafalgar but the battles of St Vincent, The Nile and Copenhagen, in order to give a fuller picture of how the legendary leader developed his tactics and gained experience against the French. In addition, the author provides an analysis of the development of the admiral's art, which developed more in the last years of the eighteenth century than ever before. Carrying the study beyond Nelson's last battle, Tracy also examines the aftermath and the impact Trafalgar had on future naval history, and the effects of the Royal Navy's efforts to copy Nelson's tactics.
A member of the History Department of the University of New Brunswick, Nicholas Tracy has written extensively on the age of sail, particularly naval strategy and military operations in this period. He has carried out studies for the Canadian Department of National Defence, and is an experienced yachtsman.
Place and publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Date of publication: 2008
Number of pages: 288
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In 1815, after an adventurous war, the young Irish doctor Barry O'Meara accepted the opportunity of a lifetime to look after Napoleon in his banishment on St Helena. In one of the most isolated places in the world, Napoleon and his entourage fought a constant battle with the security-obsessed British military who were his jailers.
Utilising a wide range of sources, and focusing largely on Dr O'Meara's diary entries which recount conversations with Napoleon on a day-to-day basis, The Emperor and the Irishman is an insight into the private face of Napoleon and the conflict of interest O'Meara felt as an officer in the British navy, and a physician to his country's enemy.
Dr Hubert O'Connor is a Dublin gynaecologist. He played rugby for Ireland, being capped four times. After ten years' post-graduate education in France and London, he set up his practice in Dublin. He has lectured on the events on St Helena all over the world.
Place and publisher: A&A Farmar
Date of publication: 2008
Number of pages: 240
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