Publications

 From the publishers:The period from mid-afternoon until early evening on that terrible Sunday was the time, as Wellington described it, of 'hard pounding'. The three programmes on this disc cover the massed French cavalry attacks led by Marshal Ney, the battle fought by the Kings German Legion and the 95th Rifles to hold La Haie […]

 From the publishers:Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is instead varying and multiple, taking on different […]

 Volume eight of The General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the year 1808 and the following January, 1809. Forming what could be described as the empire's turning point, 1808 lurches from apogee – territorial expansion and the meeting at Erfurt – to decline – the war in Spain, the Continental Blockade's limited application, intensifying Austrian […]

 From the publishers:This reference and research tool charts in detail the composition of the French cavalry during the course of the Peninsular War, detailing all the movements of the regiments and brigades. By the end of the Peninsular War, only four thousand cavalrymen were left in Spain and Portugal. This was a fraction of the number […]

  From the publishers: How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this […] wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century—paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture, and photographs—and documents […]

 From the publishersIn contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's […] study [] is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are […]

 From the publishers:The Battle of Albuera in 1811 was one of the lesser known battles of the Napoleonic Wars; however, it was also one of the most remarkable. The battle became known as one of the bloodiest battles of the Peninsular War not only for the number of troops that were lost but also because […]

 From the publishers:Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant seapower was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy […]

 From the publishers:The Peninsular War saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Napoleonic Wars. Over a period of five years, it is estimated that half a million soldiers and civilians were killed. The battles, however, are less well-known than those of other Napoleonic battles; despite the exposure given to this theatre in Bernard Cornwell's […]

 From the publishers:Reconstructing Empress Eugénie's position as a private collector and a public patron of a broad range of media, this study is the first to examine Eugénie (1826–1920), whose patronage of the arts has been overlooked even by her many biographers. The empress's patronage and collecting is considered within the context of her political […]