Publications

This work, with a new preface by Philip Hawthornthwaite, is a reprint of Johnston, R.M. The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words, first published in New York by Houghton Miffilin Company in 1910. It is (as the title suggests) a diary of Napoleon's life in his own words. Unfortunately, this fact is […]

Countering the traditional interpretation of Napoleon III's motives for intervening in Mexico (a Catholic French imperial block to US Protestant expansionism), this book by the Australian Academic Michele Cunningham claims that the second emperor's ideas were simply not merely imperial and agressive but rather liberal and aimed at encouraging free trade worldwide. Contents:Introduction p. 1 1 […]

A detailed, chronological accout of the origins of the Franco-Prussian war and the key roles played by Bismarck and Napoleon III. David Wetzel, a writer and editor, claims to have used both official documents and secondary sources.Contents:1 – A bit about personalities2 – Napoleon III and the Spanish Revolution of 18683 – Bismarck and the […]

A multi-author volume on Southern Italy and the Mediterranean basin during the Revolutionary triennium of 1797-1799. Edited by Francesco Barra of the University of Salerno, this work in Italian is the acts of a conference of the same title held in Avellino in March 1999. Titles (translated) include:S. Bono, The Mediterranean from the Revolution to […]

A detailed consideration of one of the bloodiest days in the history of the British Army involving an Allied army of 35,000 British, Portuguese and Spanish troops against Marshal Soult's French soldiers. Ian Fletcher is an authority on the Peninsular War. Includes 100 black and white photographs and maps and 16 full-colour uniform figures by artist Gerry […]

In Napoleon and Berlin, Michael V. Leggiere explores Napoleon's almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately cost him the war. Review by Thomas Zacharis, independent scholar, May 2007“Volume 1 of a series of books on Campaign and Commanders, Napoleon and Berlin examines a campaign that brought Napoleon one step closer to his […]

An monographic treatment in Polish of the Battle of Leipzig. Contains very clear and useful maps.

Planned as a series of four volumes, these first two detail the meteoric rise of imperial war machine and the subsequent difficulties faced from 1808-1812. Todd Fisher, president of the Napoleonic Alliance, here gives a very useful up-to-date synthesis of the major campaigns, published by the Osprey, the premier military publishers.

Referred to in his time as “the Pretender” and “the sphinx of the Tuileries”, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte so managed to manufacture his public image and mask his private self that he is, ultimately, unknowable to this day. From the mysterious circumstances of his conception in 1807 to the strange events of his downfall in 1870 […]

Based on extensive French archival research, this book investigates the nature of the Napoleonic state and its short and longer-term impact upon local society. Specifically, it examines the question of state power and its implementation and reception at a local level, the relationship between central government and the regions, the social and economic impact of […]