Press reviews

  A review by Frank O'Gorman in History Today of Jack P. Greene's book: Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain.   “The purposes of this book are singular and, to an extent, groundbreaking. It explores ways in which 18th-century ‘metropolitan Britons' spoke and wrote about Empire ‘as they tried to confront its unfolding […]

 The Fondation Napoléon recently gave books to the Museo Napoleonico Library in La Havana, Cuba.  Read more about it (in French or Spanish).

  “A Belgian farm which played a key role in The Duke of Wellington's victory at the historic Battle of Waterloo is to become a permanent memorial to the British soldiers who fought there.   Hougoumont had been neglected and forgotten but nearly 200 years later, a £3m project to restore it is under way.” […]

  Wish you'd been at the inauguration of the Napoleon exhibition in Astana (Kazakhstan), from 19 December, 2013 to 23 February, 2014?   Watch this interview of our President, Victor-André Masséna on the Kazakh TV News, and this short TV documentary about the exhition with Pierre Branda, on the Kazakh television (both videos in Kazakh). […]

  Editorial from Times Colonist on the war commemorations in 2014, from the end of the War of 1812 in the USA and Canada to the First World War.    

  “I pompieri dell'Imperatore” by Alessandro Mella, in VFV Antincendio e Protezione Civile, (2) XXII, marzo/aprile 2008, pp.32/35.   Also on academia.edu (subsscription required)

 “La medaglia di Sant'Elena” by Alessandro Mella, in Milites, (50), luglio/agosto 2008, pp. 10/12.  Also available on academia.edu (subscription required). —   Second part of the article:   “La medaglia di Sant'Elena (2a parte)” by Alessandro Mella, in Milites, (31), settembre/ottobre 2008, pp. 10/12.   Also available on academia.edu (subscription required).

  “I piemontesi della Guardia Imperiale – Il battaglione dei Veliti di Torino 1809-1814” by Alessandro Mella, in Milites, (39), gennaio/febbraio 2010, pp. 23/25.   Also available on academia.edu (subscription required).

  “I testimoni di Waterloo” by Alessandro Mella, in Milites, (34), marzo/aprile 2009, pp. 34/37. Also available on academia.edu (subscription required).  

 By Michael Peck in Foreign Policy.com, 23 December, 2013.  Two Canadian warships have recently been named after two War of 1812 battles in which Canada defeated the USA.   Also read “Combat vessel names may be drawn from history” for a Canadian viewpoint of the same topic.