Publications

John Lehman was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy, and he gives a broad narrative of the Navy, from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Of interest to the Napoleonic enthusiast is his section on the war of 1812 and his interest the little-studied area of privateering, which in Lehman's opinion played as greater […]

This CD ROM is a representation and discussion of the Battle of Tolentino (2-3 March, 1815), Murat's Waterloo, considered by some historians as the first battle for Italian independence. Produced by the third year students of the Commercial and Technical college “Alberico Gentili”, in Macerata (Italy), the CD shows the different phases of the battle, […]

The Naval Chronicle was published by Joyce Gold in monthly parts for 20 years from January 1799. It was also issued bound in some 40 half-yearly volumes, each containing over 500 pages plus illustrative plates – a grand total of more than 21,000 pages. A number of volumes of the Naval Chronicles are now available […]

This book takes the period from 1780-1880 as the 'French Revolutionary' period and discusses France and its position within Europe. It is aimed at undergraduates and general readers interested in the 19th century. Contents/contributors Malcolm Crook: Introduction1 Malcolm Crook: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1788-18142 Pamela Pilbeam: Upheaval and Continuity, 1814-18803 Thomas Kselman: Religious Belief4 Elinor […]

This short books tells the appalling story of the French, Polish, Swiss and Italian conscripts taken prisoner by the British at Baylen and who were abandoned on the deserted island of Cabrera (of the coast of Majorca) for 5 years.

Provided with copious notes, this important book by Luigi Mascilli Migliorini (of the Naples Istituto universitario orientale) attempts to peel aways the layers of interpretation which time has placed upon Napoleon and to reveal the man as a complex tissue of apparently contradictory facets facing up to the no less complex and contradictory features of […]

Le Mireur is a seven-volume dictionary dedicated to the art sales in Europe of the 18th and 19th centuries. An essential work tool for the art historian.

Pillepich's doctoral thesis of 1997, this book is both erudite and fascinating: the history of the ancient city of Milan faced with the political and social upheavals caused by the creation of a Napoleonic Italian state of which Milan was the capital..

A recreation of the drama of the 100 days, this book recounts day-by-day the long march from Antibes to Paris, the famous 'Vol de l'Aigle'. Paul Britten Austin is the author of the 1812 trilogy on the invasion of Russia, also published by Greenhill Books.

Thirteen excellent essays on Napoleon by some of the best anglophone specialists of the Napoleonic period:Napoleon's youth and rise to power, Harold T. ParkerThe military culture of Napoleonic France, by Alan ForrestThe Napoleonic regime and French society, by Isser WolochThe Napoleonic police state, by Michael SibalisThe nature of Napoleonic imperialism, by Geoffrey EllisNapoleon and the […]