Publications : 1274
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PublicationWith Napoleon in Russia
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 […]
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PublicationSalamanca
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 […]
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PublicationDigby Smith’s Napoleon’s Regiments A comprehensive reference book providing detailed information on about 400 regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815.
Contents include: The Imperial Guard Line Infantry Light Infantry Troops not of the Line Colonial troops Auxiliary Troops Line Cavalry Artillery Appendices: Demi-Brigades Raised from Volunteer Units Volunteer Battalions, 1792-96 Regimental Establishments The Growth of the Infantry, 1792-96 The Growth of the Imperial Guard Reorganisation of the Infantry, 12 May 1814 Departmental Legions, 3 August […]
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Publication‘The First World War’?
Napoleon 1813 by Hezi ShelahThis book tells the story of a crucial year in Napoleon’s life, 1813. Hezi Shelah’s theory is that the characteristics of the military campaigns of 1813 were so different from previous wars that 1813 in fact witnessed, in effect, the first world war. Born in Israel in 1934, Hezi Shelah served […]
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PublicationHistoire du Consulat et de l’Empire
Jacques-Olivier Boudon’s latest book.University professor, disciple of Jean Tulard, and Tulard’s successor as president of the Institut Napoléon, Jacques-Olivier Boudon has written a Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire, published by Perrin. Five hundred pages of useful, precise and where necessary passionate commentary on the 15 years of the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte. (Th. L.) […]
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PublicationJacques Macé returns honour to Charles de Montholon
Retired aeronautical engineer become historian, Jacques Macé has written a book on the much-maligned Charles de Montholon. Whilst accepting that the general was no saint, he nevertheless manages to give a more balanced description than that presented by other authors. Macé not only brings to light Albine de Montholon’s emotionally-charged Chant de Moïne (published anonymously […]
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PublicationNot just a list of battles: a reconsideration of military history
This book edited by Thomas Khüne (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Benjamin Ziemann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), comprising essays by 19 academics, attempts to answer the question ‘What is military history? Was ist Militärgischichte, Ferdinand Schöningh
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PublicationDie Geschichte der Zerstöring Moskaus im Jahre 1812 (The history of the destruction of Moscow, 1812)
According to the Bulletin de la Grande Armée, no. 20, 17 September, 1812, the governor of the city of Moscow, count Feodor Vassilievich Rostopchin, gave the order for three to four hundred brigands to set fire to the city. In the subsequent fire that raged, almost three-quarters of the old wooden city of Moscow was […]
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PublicationMost secret and confidential – intelligence in the age of Nelson
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationWellington in India
Books to read over the summer 2001