Publications

  From the publishers:  “…Questo di Roberto Paura è il primo saggio italiano, rigoroso ma di piacevole lettura, a incentrarsi sul declino dell'Impero napoleonico. Un'opera unica e originale, il cui approccio alle vicende legate alla caduta del grande condottiero si sviluppa non solo attraverso il punto di vista delle campagne militari, ma tramite un'inedita riflessione sul […]

  From the publishers:  “…The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the […]

  From the publishers:  “…Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and exhausted continent. At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of […]

  From the publishers:  “…This was the scene after midnight, 19 June 1815: On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armée was struggling in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; caked in dust and sweat, the Duke […]

  From the publishers:  “Everyone knows Fouché. Fouché from Nantes, the penniless bourgeois, the short teacher at the heavily religious Oratoire schools; Fouché the member of Convention, the regicide, the 'proconsul' of Nevers and Moulins, the 'gunner of Lyons', the destroyer of Robespierre, Napoléon's nightmare, the minister of all regimes, the inventor of the modern police force, […]

  From the publishers:  “…More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated […]

  From the publishers:  “…Roustam Raza was sold into slavery in Egypt, then given to General Napoleon Bonaparte in August 1799. For fifteen years, he was Napoleon's personal bodyguard, always with the emperor and sleeping across his doorway. His reminiscences include Russia in 1812 and life in the imperial palaces. He didn't follow Napoleon into exile […]

  From the publishers: “Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most extraordinary men who ever lived. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France […]

 From the publishers: “…The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny […]

  From the publishers:  “… ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Jabartī (1753–1825) is the most important historian of late Ottoman Egypt. His Marvelous Chronicles: Biographies and Events (ʿAjāʾib al-Āthār fī ʼl-Tarājim wa-ʼl-Akhbār) covers the history of Egypt from 1688 to 1821, a period which includes Napoleon's invasion and the French occupation of the country (1798–1801). The historical narrative is […]