Publications

A detailed biography of Emma Hamilton, from her birth as the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, through her time as the wife of Sir William Hamilton and her famous romance with Lord Nelson, to her death in poverty in northern France.

Yet another treatment of the Battle of Trafalgar, but this time through the eyes of those below decks. Full of the blood and guts of life in the Georgian navy.

The campaigns of Egypt, Italy, the coup d'Etat of 18 Brumaire, the coronation, the battles of the empire period, the battle of Waterloo, the exile on the island of Saint Helena were all elements which came to make up the 'Napoleonic legend' of a simple man called to an extraordinary destiny: Napoleon Bonaparte. This excellent […]

John Sugden's first of two volumes here claims to have stripped away the legends of the great man, reconstructing Nelson's private and public life from scratch. It charts the early period of Nelson' life, largely neglected by earlier writers, that is, from childhood the battle of Cape St Vincent. According to the publishers, this is […]

From the press:The 'military machine' by which Napoleon and his indispensable chief of staff Marshal Berthier commanded and controlled his huge armies on campaign numbered some 1,500 officers and men, organized in the different bureaux of his military and civilian 'households' and the army general headquarters. This essential tool of the Emperor's power was designed […]

In this important book, Esdaile takes head on the crucial problem of definition of the guerillas and their struggle during the Peninsular War. As is clear from the title, those fighting in an unofficial way in Spain were 'Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers'. And ever since the years of the struggle itself, veterans and historians alike […]

In this ground breaking publication, Wayne Hanley has combined book and web in a detailed discussion of Napoleon as journalist and propaganda master extraordinaire. Contents:Preface 1. Introduction 2. News from the Front: Bonapartes dispatches and the press3. For Morale or Propaganda? The Newspapers of Bonaparte4. Art as Bonaparte's tool of propaganda 5. The Medals of General […]

This useful, slim volume is a beautifully illustrated compilation of details concerning the private properties, offical residences (both in France and abroad), occupied palaces and residences in exile. Comprising thirty-two short chapters, it ranges from Casa Bonaparte in Ajaccio through Malmaison, the Tuileries, and Saint-Cloud to the royal palaces in Italy (Milan, Venice, Mainz), the […]

FIRST EMPIREMilitary– GLOVER Gareth, (ed.) Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied officers from the Siborne papers– KILEY Kevin F., Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars– HOLLINS David, Austrian Commanders of the Napoleonic Wars 1792–1815 (Elite 101)– PAVLOVIC Darko, BRNARDIC Vladimir, Napoleon's Balkan Troops (Men-at-Arms 410)– CHARTRAND Rene, Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular […]

 From the Press:South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars; yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea – broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands – France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean. Here she took into imperial service […]