Publications

This is a charming edition of the Empress Marie Louise's journey through Switzerland in 1829. The Empress describes her impressions of the countryside and the places she visited and the account is accompanied by numerous contemporary watercolours and prints, edited by Francesca Sandrini, director of the Museo Glauco Lombardi.  

From the publishers:  Stuart Sutherland's work is the first modern bibliography in English of the Seven Weeks' War of 1866. It includes books in English French German and Italian and is subdivided into sections on general histories particular campaigns and battles (Hanoverian Bohemian-Moravian Italian southern German and naval) biographies journals and reminiscences by participants and […]

From the publishers: This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, Geschichte des Feldzugs in Italien 1866, which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia and the southern Tyrol and […]

From the publishers:  In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812 comes Neither Victor nor Vanquished, William Weber's reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict.In the first half […]

This is a masterful study which takes a fresh look at this pivotal diplomatic event in European history. In the period September 1814 to June 1815, hundreds of representatives of all the European states, whether extant or dissolved, assembled in Vienna, and amidst series of balls, fetes, concerts and theatre performances, after two decades of […]

From the Publishers:  During the momentous events that shook Italy in 1860 as the nation was unified, there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter, Bronte became a symbol – of the limits of the liberal Risorgimento and of the persistence of foreign domination: descendants […]

From the Publishers:   With Trumpet, Drum and Fife explores new areas of the world of military musical instruments. The chapters of the book guide you from the Ancient World through to the Restoration and up to the modern day giving examples of the origins and developments of the instruments employed. The author gives accounts […]

From the Publishers: A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is a detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art […]

From the Publishers: The army was one of the pillars on which the Russian regime built its power, and it was crucial for the survival of the regime both in domestic and foreign affairs. The reactions and thinking of the military at a time of rapid social, political, economic, and technological change, therefore, tell a lot […]

From the Publishers: This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at times an equally overbearing ideology: Napoleon's imperialism.Although small […]