Publications : 1273
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PublicationThe Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and DiplomacyVolume 1: Politics and Diplomacy (Coordinators: Broers Michael, Dwyer Philip) Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to discuss the different aspects of the […]
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PublicationKutuzov: A Life in War and PeaceThis text is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian field marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace. One of the most important military minds of the period, he is credited with defeating Napoleon and saving Russia, though… -
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PublicationНаполеон в 1812 году: хроника [Napoleon in 1812: A Chronicle]Book in Russian The Fondation Napoléon has been working for five years with professors Vladimir Zemtsov and Victor Chudinov through the History Forum in Yekaterinburg. And both men have recently agreed to serve on the editorial board of the Fondation Napoléon’s forthcoming English-language online journal,… -
PublicationFrance in the Maltese Collective Memory Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British MaltaPublisher’s presentation: Retrieving memories from the French interlude of 1798-1800 the author presents current academic theories of collective memory and researched documents – some for the first time – in Malta and abroad to argue the case for Malta’s identity as perceived by different generations… -
PublicationFrench and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816. The strangest experimentThis remarkable book turns the spotlight on an strangely un-illuminated part of the Napoleonic Wars, namely Prisoner of War incarceration, whether in Prison or in Hulks, focussing particularly on the specially constructed POW prison on Dartmoor (UK). Two juxtaposed statistics illustrate graphically why this book is welcome – there were between 130,000 and 150,000 French […]
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PublicationTo Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VIIIn the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio […]
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PublicationWellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813. Never a finer armyFirst came the news of the French defeat in Russia in January 1813. Then six months later, Europe learned of the French rout at Vitoria. European commentators felt that Napoleon’s days were numbered. The aspiring German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was so inspired by Wellington’s… -
PublicationArenenberg. Königin Hortense, Napoléon und Kaiserin Eugénie: Ein Familiensitz Arenenberg(French-German edition) Title in French: Arenenberg. La reine Hortense, Napoléon III et l’impératrice Eugénie : une maison de famille Christine Egli, Deputy Director of the Napoleon Museum in Thurgau, offers us a bilingual French-German version of the history of the imperial estate of Arenenberg (now the… -
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PublicationLa dernière passion de Napoléon. La bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène [Napoleon’s last Passion: the St Helena Library]Book in French In his book La dernière passion de Napoléon [Napoleon’s passion for books], Jacques Jourquin presents us with the details of a long investigation aimed at reconstituting the contents of the library at Longwood House during Napoleon’s exile on the island of St Helena.… -
PublicationThe Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811–1814The second in 2 volumes. See volume 1