Publications

by Rebecca Probert (Author), Richard Woodhead (Contributor), Prof Charles Esdaile (Contributor), Naomi Pullin (Contributor), Prof Giorgio Riello(Contributor), Elodie Duché (Contributor), Dr Thomas Cardoza (Contributor). From the publishers: Catherine Exley was born in Leeds in 1779. Aged thirty, she boarded a ship and sailed for Portugal. Her memoir of the years she spent following the 34th Regiment is unique, the only first-hand account of the Peninsular War by the […]

From the publishers: In July 1815, just six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, Sir Walter Scott set out for Flanders to visit the battlefield. He paid for the trip by writing Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, a series of letters written by ‘Paul’ to various members of his fictitious family. This ebook is a […]

Publisher’s presentation In the first of a potential new series Florian Richter presents colour profile models of every ship on both sides in this epic battle. In a change to previous paper soldier titles, these ships can be cut straight out of the book to create the British, French and Spanish fleets. About the Authors […]

First English translation of the work by Carl von Clauswitz (1780-1831) Publisher’s presentation: Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. The others, historical analyses of the wars that roiled Europe from 1789 through […]

From the publishers: “This Dark Business tells the riveting story of the British government’s determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III’s reluctant subjects to fight […]

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 […]