Publications

Short general history of British interest in Sicily during the Napoleonic period.

A history of Corsica and it experience under the British.

Using journals, ship's logs, personal letters and other contmporary documents, David Cordingly has written a “biography” of the Bellerophon. Present at the glorious “First of June”, the Battle of the Nile, Trafalgar and Saint Helena, the ship played a role all the major Napoleonic moments of the period. Includes an index and bibliography. David Cordingly is […]

A (light) selection of this and last year's books. For your delight on the beach…  Military/Naval– POCOCK Tom, The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon and the Secret War, London: John Murray, 2002– BRITTEN AUSTIN Paul, 1815: The return of Napoleon, London: Greenhill Books, 2002– SMITH Denis, The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's forgotten soldiers, 1809-1814, New […]

This book is an imaginative reconstruction and a full narrative of the battle of Waterloo. Alessandro Barbero teaches Mediaeval History at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli. He is author of Medioevo: Storia di voci, racconto di immagini, Laterza, 1999, and Carlo Magno, Laterza, 2002, and was winner of the Strega literary prize in 1996.

A reprint of the 1865 notes or memoirs of Waterloo, this is not a blow-by-blow account but a series of factual statements and opinions on various aspects of the battle.  Captain James Shaw was in the 43rd Light Infantry which fought in the 3rd Division of Wellington's army at Waterloo under Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Alten.

A biographical and strategical account of twelve key figures in the Napoleonic wars, of all nationalities, namely, Napoleon, Eugène de Beauharnais, Lasalle, Moore, Wellingon, hill, Erzherzog Karl, Blücher, Gneisenau, Bagration, Barclay de Tolly, and Kutusov. Each of the chapters is divided up into three sections, that is, biography, a strengths and weaknesses account and a […]

At last Chaplin's (now exceedingly rare) A St. Helena Who's Who has been reprinted. And Savannah have given us the complete 1919 edition – the 1914 edition is one hundred pages shorter – but unfortunately they have changed the title. That being said, this is a fundamental work for all those interested in the Saint […]

A revisionist view of the captivity on Saint Helena, Giles attempts to show the politics behind the vilification of Hudson Lowe. Indeed, Lowe was not only criticised by his contemporaries but also by those who came later, and the author carefully takes us through the myriad differing opinions. Frank Giles is former literary editor of London's […]

This volume (first published in 1913, but here without date or place of publication and appearing amongst other books published in 2003) lists over 1200 Royal Naval and Royal Marine Officers who served at Trafalgar on 21 October, 1805, together with the service histories of some 850 of them. The services were compiled from a range […]