Publications

From the publishers:Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably defeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216 states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins of his toppled […]

From the publishers:“Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush?When Tom Keneally discovered by chance at the National Gallery of Victoria that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while the Emperor Napoleon was […]

Texts in French)   The 280 pages of this “album” take us on a visual journey through the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. This album is not simply a slide-show: Thierry Lentz's commentaries illuminate this exhaustive and fascinating iconographic collection. From the publishers:“With his clear and entertaining commentaries Thierry Lentz, retraces the different traits of Napoleon's personality […]

From the Publishers:  “Upon France's defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, “From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world's history.” The pronouncement proved prescient, for this first major victory emboldened France's revolutionary government to […]

From the publishers: Discover why Napoleon really lost the Waterloo Campaign Napoleon was betrayed during 1815 There is no doubt of this. The Traitors admitted as much, and the Allied powers documented their acts. In the immediate aftermath of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, many French considered treason as the primary cause. But over the next 100 […]

From the Publishers: “What a novel my life has been!” Bonaparte exclaimed in exile. “Napoleon's Rules: Life and Career Lessons from Bonaparte” is a history that mines the conqueror's maxims to provide business, career, and life advice. His extraordinary success and failure provides fifteen comprehensively examined “rules” that readers can learn from. The book is […]

From the publishers:“He came to France an immigrant and left an exile – but, in a career spanning just 35 years, he became general, consul and emperor. How did Napoleon's name come to be synonymous with brilliance, legend and glory despite displaying opportunistic and manipulative tendencies, and repeatedly deserting those that followed him?200 years after […]

From the pulbishers: “Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid – even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.His colourful adventures read like something […]

Whilst 1810 is generally held to be the acme of the Empire, 1811 was  more of a ‘curate's egg'. To be sure, there was relative peace on the Spanish front, there was British commercial discomfort, stability in the continental alliances, and the birth of the King of Rome, the celebrations for which were ending at […]

From the publishers: “Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being set in the same period of history. This study argues that there are important similarities between these two […]