Publications

A dictionary giving presentations of the roles of the ministers and the organisation of their ministries, with details on their origins, ranks, careers, honours and rewards, etc.

This book claims to be carefully researched from primary sources – including official documents and surviving uniforms – and contains 91 full colour plates illustrating Napoleon's Guard cavalry units:- the Dragons de l'Impératrice (25 plates)- the Chasseurs à cheval (27 plates)- the Chevau-légers Polonais (25 plates)- the Grenadiers à cheval (13 plates)- plus a picture […]

Published in 1998 by Einhorn-Presse, ReinbPaperback 230p.ISBN: 3887567838To order the work online from the German version of Amazon http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3887567838/qid%3D954256822/sr%3D1-38/302-7787064-9904052

This survey of the social history of Russia covers the subject from before Peter the Great through to Napoleon. A key theme is how far the state managed to shape Russian society, through its many centralizing policies.A Social History of the Russian Empire 1650-1825

To a contemporary observer in 1780, the outcome of the struggle for mastery in Germany was entirely open. This study shows why, after the upheavals – domestic and internal – of the revolutionary period and the geopolitical revolution of 1815, Prussia, and not Austria, was on the verge of winning the struggle for mastery by […]

Admiral Sir Sidney Smith liked to think of himself as a second Nelson, and there were parallels between the two. Smith and Nelson shared the credit for changing the course of history by ending Napoleon Bonaparte’s dream of eastern conquest: Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Smith by his defence of Acre. While […]

New Napoleonic Publications – Napoleon: How to Make WarA comprehensive collection of the military maxims of Napoleon translated into English by Keith Sanborn, How to Make War is based on the French edition compiled by Yann Cloarec published by Éditions Champ Libre in 1973 as Comment faire la guerre. The edition also includes a critical […]

A swash-buckling novel about the battle of Essling by Patrick Rambaud, an author used to having his tongue placed firmly in his cheek. Rambaud puts himself in the shoes of Balzac who wanted to write about the battle.

Books to read over the summer 2001