Publications

About Napoleon III and the contemporary political regime, this book examines how  Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte managed to secure election as President of the Republic and then to launch a successful coup d'état to found a Second Empire. Thereafter follows a discussion of the ways in which power was wielded in the new imperial regime, and Napoleon […]

Between 1792 and 1814 London was home to a flourishing French émigré newspaper and periodical press that served both an exile audience and a Europe-wide French-speaking elite. The experienced journalists who had fled the revolution and staffed the press are revealed as professional activists engaged in an international ideological struggle; their successful counter-revolutionary propaganda affected […]

A detailed account of Napoleon's rise to power and the role played by supporters such as Cambaceres, Fouché and others, by Isser Woloch, Professor of history at New York's Columbia University. Other works on the period by the same author are The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, (1995) and Eighteenth-Century Europe, […]

The story of the completely unknown Major George Scovell and his important work in cracking the codes used by the French in the Peninsula war. The author, Mark Urban, is the Diplomatic editor of the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight.

A very useful addition to the Napoleon enthusiast's library, this short book unravels in extraordinary detail the different parts of the Bonaparte family in Corsica. In French. Includes 4 genealogical tables.

Author of biographies of the Earl of Halifax (1991) and Salisbury (1999) and journalist for The Spectator and The Literary Review, Andrew Roberts has written a detailed interpretation of the relationship between the two great generals.Napoleon and Wellington.

Encouraged by his political rival John Adams and working in the White House in 1804, Jefferson set about editing the gospels in an attempt to reveal the kernel of true religion in story of the life of Jesus. The president was convinced that the authentic message of Jesus could be found only by extracting from […]

Mansel paints a vivid picture of Paris between the two Empires (1814 and 1852), and he sets it as the stage on which the great conflicts of the age – nationalism versus cosmopolitanism, Revolution versus Royalism, socialism versus capitalism, atheism versus Catholicism – were played out. For Mansel, the “Paris Between Empires” was a golden […]

This large-format volume contains the memoirs (translated and edited by Jonathan North) and illustrations (93 colour plates and 35 sketches in colour and b/w) by the artist/frontline soldier, Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur, depicting in all its ghastly detail the terrible Russian campaign of 1812.Selections from the book and a biography of Faber du […]

Rory Muir, author of the recent work Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon (also published by Yale UP), has written a very detailed account of the Battle of Salamanca, much in the style of the previous book, relying heavily on memoirs of participating soldiers and British as well as French […]