Press reviews

Congress of Vienna: power and politics after Napoléon By  Vick, Brian E.

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams – book review

– Review of “In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815'' by Jenny Uglow in Boston Globe By Matthew Price

Review by Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian  '…Towards the end of this subtle, thoughtful biography of Queen Victoria AN Wilson presents his defining argument. Victoria, he suggests, was an artist. He isn't talking here about her rather good watercolours, but something more profound. The queen, he claims, lived an entirely inward life, filled with characters […]

“June 1809: The Siege of Raab” by Ferdi Irmfried Wöber in Napoleonic Historical Society

Review of 'A Royal Experiment', in the New York Times (26th December, 2014) '…“No family,” remarked Princess Charlotte, George III's granddaughter, “was ever composed of such odd people.” After reading Janice Hadlow's fascinating “A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III,” this seems a bit of an understatement. Hadlow has written a family saga […]

'How Catholics Brought Napoleon to his knees' by Andrew Roberts in the Catholic Herald (2nd January, 2015)   '…“She was on her way home from church when she felt labour pains,” Napoleon would say of his mother Letizia, “and had only time to get into the house, when I was born, not on a bed, […]

'‘Napoleon': supreme strategist in governing, love and war', review in the Seattle Times (28th December, 2014)   '…Andrew Roberts' “Napoleon: A Life” is a stunning 920-page overview of Napoleon's rise and almost as dramatic fall. Although there surely are as many biographies of Napoleon as years since his death, Roberts is the first biographer to […]

Interview with Andrew Roberts on The Roundtable, WCMA (Thursday 18th December, 2014)   In this interview Roberts discusses his new biography of Napoleon (with a glowing mention of our very own Correspondance Generale!), and Napoleon's life and achievements.

Napoleon Review Article (a review of five books on Napoleon), by Professor Charles Esdaile (8th January 2015)   “200 years on, the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, and it is therefore no surprise to find that the bicentenary of his downfall has seen the publication of a number of major works by leading […]