Publications

From the publishers:Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, […]

 From the publishers:A nation's history is littered with conveniently forgotten defeats and military disasters but it is unusual for significant victories to be ignored. Richard Hopton takes a look at the long overlooked defeat of Napoleon's forces by General Sir John Stuart at Maida, southern Italy, in 1806. For many years the only hint that […]

 From the publishers:France's 9th Light Infantry regiment was created as an elite battalion in Louis XVI's Royal Army. After the aristocratic officers fled from the Revolution, command of the battalion fell to a close-knit group of grizzly ex-NCOs, idealistic revolutionaries and a young, battle-scarred captain, Mathieu Labassée. In 1799, as First Consul of the Republic, […]

 From the publishers:In 1994 Ian Fletcher published his book Fields of Fire, which was the first book to show Wellington's Peninsular War battlefields in full colour. Now, almost twenty years on, he returns with a second book, The Peninsular War: Wellington's Battlefields Revisited which shows how things have changed since 1994. The photographs cover all […]

 From the publishers:This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories – ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the […]

 From the publishers:Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her notorious behavior, dashing husband, and associations with European royalty, Elizabeth became one of America's […]

 From the publishers:Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to shape the course of European history. Over the last 200 years, the Napoleonic era has been discussed and analyzed in numerous studies, but many fail to fully portray the Russian side of […]

 This study from Digby Smith highlights a part of the Peninsular War that has received scant attention – the German units who fought in Napoleon's army. The book is a detailed study of their campaign service, with particular attention given to small engagements and skirmishes. The book is enhanced by original colour maps, uniform and […]

 From the publishers:Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This book revises such a portrait, offering a controversial new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his adversary Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man […]

 From the publishers:Foreign policy during the Consulate and Empire periods cannot be simply defined by conflict and conquest. Even when at war with the other European powers, Napoleon continued to engage in active and often creative diplomacy, directed by both his own goals and informed by tradition inherited from previous regimes, both royal and revolutionary. […]