Publications

Actions and Losses in Personnel, Colours, Standards and Artillery, 1792-1815

Introduction by Sir John Fortescue

The early nineteenth century was the ‘heroic age’ of Egyptology, marked by characters such as Champollion, Belzoni and Salt. But it was also a period dominated by Napoleon, who had led his ill-considered invasion of Egypt in 1798-99. Bernardino Drovetti was Napoleon’s proconsul in Egypt and one of the most important figures in Egypt of […]

Number 33 in the 'Napoleonic Library' series, this book recounts the events surrounding the battel of Jena.

A book on the popular representation of Napoleon and the 'legend' post the Congress of Vienna.

This biography by Frank McLynn, a journalist for the Irish Times, underlines the unresolved tensions within the man, how he was on the one hand a perfectly rational product of the enlightenment and yet on the other consulted a ‘little red man' when about to make important decisions. This later ‘primitiveness' (as McLynn describes it) […]

Europe, 1814-1815. As the continent grappled with an uneasy peace Tsar Alexander, Talleyrand, Wellington, Castlereagh, and Metternich, along with a supporting cast of rogues, mistresses, clairvoyants and spies, turned Vienna into a theatre of intrigue that shaped the face of Europe for the century to come. And in the shadows–Napoleon, who would rise again to […]