Publications

From the publishers: ‘In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor’s personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mother, attached to the household of the King of Rome as first nurse to the prince, requested this favour for me from the grand chamberlain, the Count de Montesquiou, […]

(In French) Our appraisal of this book: This is a monument that will very quickly become the reference book on the military history of France. It is to be in two volumes, but the first, which has just been published, deals with subjects that are dear to us. Under the editorial direction of Hervé Drévillon […]

Our opinion: This little book might look small but it’s actually big on the inside, like its subject. Yes, it’s the story of Napoleon’s life – told in the first person no less. Well it has to be really, given how much this little guy has to say. Readers will soon realise that this Napoleon […]

“At about 11:30 on a Sunday morning in 1815, a few shots rang out as the curtain-raiser to one of Europe’s most titanic military clashes. By late afternoon, at the close of the Battle of Waterloo, nearly 40,000 men lay dead or wounded. Until that day, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte had seemed almost invincible. Indeed, […]

From the Publishers: “At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and […]

“In this book, historian John Mollo describes the conception, gestation, birth and adolescence of the first British Regiments of Hussars – the byproducts of the Prince Regent’s passion for military finery and dandyism – leading on to their full maturity in the grim realities of war in the Iberian Peninsula between 1808 and 1814, first […]

“When the French declared war on Great Britain in 1793, they undermined the chosen policy of William Pitt, which had been to avoid conflict in order to repair the nation’s finances. The result of this policy was an understrength and inadequately resourced army. Whether campaigning on the continent in coalition with other European powers or […]

From the publishers: “The story of HMS Bellerophon is a record of the many and varied duties which the Royal Navy had to carry out in the period 1793 – 1815. It was involved in the first great fleet action of the War and was involved in the last moments of the struggle with the […]

From the Publishers: “This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson’s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man’s career despite the two men being diametrically different characters. Yet […]

From the Publishers: “An account of the life and times of Admiral John Child Purvis, who was a contemporary naval officer of Nelson. His ability as a fighting commander was proved in a bloody duel between his sloop-of-war and a French corvette during the War of American Independence. As a battleship Captain, he was the […]