Publications

 From the publishers:  From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers […] and Civil War Wives […], here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and […]

 History the right way round: in his most recent, beautifully written book, Thierry Lentz investigates the complex circumstances of the end of the Empire, from 31 March to the capitulation of Paris, on 20 April, 1814, the day on which the fallen Emperor left for the island of Elba. It turns out that the traditional […]

  From the publishers:  “In Phantom of the Guillotine, Elizabeth Sparrow has delved deep into the murky world of espionage to uncover the man behind Baroness Orczy's fictional Scarlet Pimpernel.  Having escaped the guillotine at Lyon, Louis Bayard's life was a web of intrigue. Of bourgeois origin, yet libing on the fringes of high society, he […]

 From the publishers: The Battle of Waterloo was a defining moment in world history. Rightly, the battle has been immortalised and 2015 sees the bi-centenary of the battle. Wellington and Waterloo is the first book to analyse and trace how perceptions of the battle have changed over two hundred years. Waterloo made didn't just make nations […]

 From the publishers:  Are the manias and the faults of an exceptional man simply banal? The glorious epic life of an obscure second lieutenant who, in just a few years, built an immense Empire could surely interest even the most closed of minds. And yet, despite the many books on the subject, Napoleon remains a multiple […]

  From the publishers:  This catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to Elisa, Pauline and Caroline Bonaparte is not just a presentation of the objects on show at the Musée Marmottan-Monet in Les soeurs de Napoléon – Trois destins italiens from 3 October, 2013, to 26 January, 2014. It is also a richly illustrated account of three […]

 From the publishers:  This volume comprehensively examines the ways metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a […]

 From the publishers: “This book is a study of the links between the French and the Italian architectural cultures during the Napoleonic period and in the era which immediately followed. It aims to provide a better understanding of French and Italian cultural influences on the modern architecture in European cities. ” In French and in Italian, […]

 From the publisher:  “The great Shawnee Chief Tecumseh perished in the Battle of the Thames in 1813. Colonel Johnson claimed that he killed Tecumseh, and even turned his alleged victory into a rhyming slogan that helped him win the vice-presidency of the United States in 1836, but was he really the one responsible? Thus Fell […]

 From the publishers:  “Forgotten are many of the generals who commanded the vast and boundless armies of Queen Victoria's British Empire. Some remain deeply embedded in our national consciousness such as Kitchener, Cardigan, Baden-Powell and Gordan of Khartoum, they were great generals and their names are rightly remembered. Warriors of the Queen brings to light […]