Publications

 From the publishers:This book includes all the rules you need to play miniature wargames set in the Napoleonic Wars, plus plenty of useful background information you need to get started. There is a concise historical overview of the events and battles of the period, as well as sections on the weapons and tactics of the […]

 From the publishers:By highlighting the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, this volume presents a broad view of the Napoleonic Wars not found in typical military histories. The volume comprises an introduction to the key events and significance of the wars and a rich collection of memoirs, letters, and popular engravings from the time. Rafe Blaufarb […]

 From the publishers:This book tells the tale of the elusive quest that preceded the most lavish wedding of 19th century Paris, the Imperial Wedding at the Cathedral of Nôtre-Dame, in which a Spanish Countess, rejected by the Duke of Sesto, was elevated by Napoleon's nephew to be Empress of the French, the most stylish and […]

 From the publishers:For 40 years, Kubrick fans and film buffs have wondered about the director's mysterious unmade film on Napoleon Bonaparte. Slated for production immediately following the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick's “Napoleon” was to be at once a character study and a sweeping epic, replete with grandiose battle scenes featuring thousands of […]

 From the publishers:This is the first part of a suite of programmes that will cover the Waterloo Campaign as a whole, from the concentration of the Armies astride the north eastern frontier of France, through to the Allied pursuit of Napoleon's defeated army to Paris.DVD one comprises an introduction covering the political and strategic situation […]

In Histoires de la Révolution et de l'Empire, Patrice Gueniffey, director of studies at EHESS, assembles his early work on the French revolutionary and imperial periods. These essays and studies – which have been revised and edited – cover a number of subjects and offer analysis of some of the great characters and historians of […]

 From the publishers:August 1870, the imperial army is defeated, the regime collapses, France is invaded. The sudden collapse of the Second Empire shook the whole of Europe and ushered in one hundred years of unstable decline for France. Much has been written about this “debacle”, this “annus horribilis”. However, in all these writings, there is nothing […]

 This book is a study of the Armée d'Italie between 1792 and 1797. During the period, this war machine mobilised by the Revolution was a petri dish for strategic and tactical experimentation. Over the course of a long positional war strung out along the Alps, the revolutionary army proceeded to develop new methods of warfare. […]

 From the publishers:For the young princes of Orléans – sent into exile by Napoleon III – the Second Empire was a time of idleness. Louis Philippe's grandsons, the Comte de Paris (twenty-three years old) and his brother, the Duc de Chartres (twenty-one years old) resolved to visit the United States and learn about American democracy. Arriving […]

 From the publishers:In the Napoleonic period, Italy, along with a large part of Europe, underwent a sudden and often brutal, unsystematic process of modernisation. In a brief space of time, her institutions, economic structures, social and cultural life was radically renewed, all this in a region which for several centuries had been characterised by Montesquieu […]