Publications

(This book is in French but you can read an exclusive English translation of the Preface to the volume by Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, Président of Fondation Napoléon). Entitled “Les chutes” (“The Downfall(s)”), this 15th and last volume of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Correspondance générale covers the darkest periods – but also in some respects the most exciting […]

Taking his title from Hegel’s famous remark “I saw the spirit of the age [Weltgeist]” (omitting the German philosopher‘s conclusion ‘on horseback’ but thoughtfully providing on the cover an illustration of a mounted Napoleon), Michael Broers unsheathes his mighty pen/sword for an epic account of Napoleon’s epic years. Once again (this is volume 2), he […]

First English translation of Principes de la stratégie, développés par la relation de la campagne de 1796 en Allemagne Publisher’s presentation: An essential hole in knowledge of the art of warfare in the 1800s is now filled. Scholars and aficionados of warfare use strategic tomes to broaden their understanding of why certain countries’ armies took […]

This long-awaited book is literally a “Private View” of probably the largest and richest private Napoleonic collection in the world, rivalling those of major museums. Each object or artwork of Bruno Ledoux’s collection is intimately connected to the life, times or legacy of the Emperor Napoleon. Publisher’s presentation: A timeless symbol of power and ambition, […]

This is the exhibition catalogue of the Musée d’Orsay’s 30th anniversary exhibition dedicated to the art of the Second Empire and the Imperial Family. It exists in both English and in French  

This bilingual French-English catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition at Arras (until November 2018) show-casing the Napoleonic collection from the Château de Versailles. It includes full-colour illustrations of all the artworks, each accompanied by a detailed mini article, as well as thematic articles by Jean Tulard (“The orgins of the Napoleonic Legend: […]

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. It was a strategy that had been […]

Publisher’s note: Recent research into the Duke of Wellington’s armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide to his brigade commanders is a valuable contribution to this growing field. Ron McGuigan and Robert Burnham have investigated the lives and careers […]

Publisher’s note: The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analysed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theatre of the conflict. Gareth Glover sets this […]

This is the story of Thomas Fremantle, one of Britain’s greatest naval captains and Lord Nelson’s closest friend and ally. The two, bound in friendship, were part of a Navy that ensured Napoleon could never invade Britain. The naval campaign culminated in the great victory at Trafalgar and, with the fleet in mourning for the […]