Publications

The New York Times recommends to put on your list of summer reading, ‘ Stendhal “A fine life of the novelist who participated so passionately in the Napoleonic drama, which he both conveyed and deflated in The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.” The New York Times on the Web, June 1, […]

“The Napoleonic Wars, which bore along with them the rationalist spirit of the French Revolution, inspired the Prussian officer Carl von Clausewitz to propose that war itself is an entirely rational undertaking, unsullied by human emotion,” is the provocative beginning of this exploration of a very large subject.

Professor Prendergast’s study begins with an itinerary of Napoleonic places, both modest and monumental in Paris and its environs. Thats very nice. It then launches into a sometimes deeply theoretical analysis of style. The jacket summary states as the main argument that under Napoleon, French history painting and especially battle painting, encountered a series of […]

Napoleon and his Guard has been reprinted after more than 35 years. The glory of the Imperial Guard resounds above all others in the annals of war. This is a new printing of this critically acclaimed publication with a new introduction by Col. John R. Elting. Perhaps it is less an anatomy than epic or […]

Napoleon contributes to the Profiles in Power series with a book described by the general editor of the series as “not a standard biography, or indeed a narrative account at all, but a thematic reappraisal of Napoleon's life and career” touching on personality, politics, imperialism, and the “very process of history-making itself.” Ellis is particularly […]

A History of Leisure Travel takes us on a wonderful journey through other people’s travels undertaken between 1750 and 1915. The maps and motivations of these trips, intriguing in themselves, also guide us to the political circumstances that limited or defined travel in the given period. Traveling for fun was interrupted during the Napoleonic Wars; […]

A Personal History is a new work by the famous British historian on his heroic subject that includes a biography of the young Wellesley and a deeply knowledgeable and readable account of Wellington's habits. The small but important details of his life and how he conducted it give shape to this mythic figure,and in particular, his […]

Heine's Last Years in Paris is a posthumously published biography of Heinrich Heine that takes us into the last years of this German Romantic poet and into Paris between 1847 and 1856. Haussmann and the rise of Louis Napoleon figure in selections of his poetry, craftily and with humour. We are amazed by Heine's capacity […]

Henry Beyle, Napoleon's messenger, passed from passionate enthousiasm for Napoleon to deep desillusion, only to meet his destiny as a writer amidst the cannons and the slaughter. Nicolas Boussard teaches philosophy at the University of Tours and is at present working on Stendhal's political philosophy.

Jean-Paul Delbert takes us on Milhaud's epic Napoleonic journey with all its deeds of valour and glory.