Publications

 From the publisher: “A […] new history of the War of 1812 and the founding of Illinois On the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the […]

 From the publisher: “This […] story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation's path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as “freedom's swift-winged angels.” In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British […]

 From the editor:  “The Milanese, Stendhal wrote, were “people who had been bored for a century” when General Bonaparte entered the city at the head of his young army on May 15, 1796. That day changed Milan's appearance forever. Social life, passion for beautiful things, aesthetic discipline ruled by new canons, fashion exemplified by the […]

 A fantasy novel taking place in a Napoleonic-era-inspired universe.  From the publisher: “Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel — but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic…Captain Marcus d'Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire's colonial garrisons, was resigned to serving out […]

Series Flying Through History. From the publisher:  “You think history is boring? Baltimore kid Daniel does – until a chance encounter with a magical talking raven named Calvert sends him flying back to 1814, where he finds his home city under siege by a British army on the verge of defeating the United States of America in […]

 From the publisher:  “A Traveler's Guide to the War of 1812 Forts, Battlefield, and Historic Sites along America's Byways in New York and Pennsylvania. In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, discover the historic events that helped shape a young American nation during its “Second War of Independence.” This beautifully illustrated guidebook […]

 Recording by: Choeur de chambre de Namur / Les Agrémens, Guy Van Waas.Is it a book, is it a cd? Well, it's both. This month's book is a book/cd of Rodolphe Kreutzer's famous opera The Death of Abel. The opera itself was based on an curious libretto, set halfway between opera and oratorio, and it was […]

 From the publisher:“This third part illustrates the last years of the Empire; dark years which will see our “Chasseurs” being gobbled up during the Russian disaster. Like a lot of regiments, the Chasseurs A Cheval were swallowed up in the Russian disaster. Phantom regiments were reformed with considerable difficulty in 1813 and 1814. During the […]

 From the publisher:“This book traces the glorious history of the elite French cavalry. Through 61 plates of highly detailed uniform illustrations, André Jouineau guides the reader from the first company of carabiniers established within in each regiment—those superior marksmen equipped with a rifle, the gauge of precision par excellence—sought after by Louis XIV in 1690, […]

 From the publisher:“One of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic wars is described in this gripping narrative.Around Leipzig between 14-19 October 1813, 500,000 men would battle on what remains the greatest battlefield of the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon would fight to keep his grip on Germany and beyond his empire. The Russians, the crowned winners […]