Publications

This glossy book is a detailed, positive, romantic view of Josephine, her life and her relations with Napoleon.   Eleanor P. Delorme is senior lecturer in the Art Department and adjunct curator for the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, USA. She is also the author of  Garden Pavilions and the 18th Century […]

A small but perfectly formed reference book for the Napoleonic period. This short volume, edited by Clive Emsley is an exceedingly handy tool which offers: 28 timelines (both international politics and the domestic affairs of the different nations); lists of rulers and governments of the different powers; details concerning the départements of the Grande Empire; information […]

Based on the unique collection at the Public Record Office at Kew, Historical Maps of the Napoleonic Wars charts the campaigns and battles from 1803 to 1815. It contains detailed maps of all the areas of battle including the Eastern Front in Germany, Russia, and Austria, the Southern Front in Spain and Portugal, and the […]

Part of a sixteen-volume series developed and written by the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point, The Wars of Napoleon goes through the early years of Napoleon Bonaparte's military career to the Emperor's defeat at Waterloo, offering analyses of Napoleon's military strengths and weaknesses. The book also considers the technology available […]

The Alessandria-based Centro europeo di studi e ricerche sul periodo napoleonico or CNE (Italy) has published a reprint of the Chuquet edition Desaix's fascinating account of his travels in Switzerland and Italy in 1797.  The renowned specialist of Napoleon's early years, Arthur Chuquet produced his essay and commentary on this fascinating Desaix text in 1907. […]

From the publishers:This is a book on Robert Emmet, designed to coincide with the bicentenary of his death. After a rapidly convened trial he was executed for treason by the British government in September 1803. He quickly became a legend, fuelled by his speech from the dock after the judge pronounced sentence, his doomed romance […]

This book is a collection of c. 30 fascsimiles of the Freiberg plates and c. 130 other uniform plates and French uniform illustrations from the Brun collection. Charles Brun was a uniform artist of the early 1900s who took copies of the uniform illustrations painted during the summer armistice of the 1813 campaign by two […]

This is the first ever translation into English of Davout's Opérations du 3e Corps, first published in French by Davout's nephew in 1896. It details the extraordinarily successful campaigns of the 3rd Corps of Napoleon's Grande Armée of 1805–1807, under the command of Marshal Louis Davout, most notably at the Battle of Auerstädt, 14 October […]

This biography is the story of Pierre Daumesnil a loyal follower of Napoleon during his rise and his fall. Enlisting as a private soldier in 1793, Daumesnil was caught up in the Napoleonic Wars, surviving all the campaigns and emerging as a much-decorated general and Baron of the Empire. Wounded at Wagram, losing a leg, […]

The Dutch 'Red' Lancers – the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard – were formed in 1810 after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France. The former hussars of the Dutch Royal Guard got a new uniform, a new weapon, and a new colonel, Baron Edouard Colbert. His lancers distinguished themselves […]