Publications

 From the publishers:Where else will you find not just the pay of different ranked officers but the amount of income tax they paid, as well as all the other deductions and stoppages that reduced their actual receipts to a fraction of their nominal (and generally quite low) pay? Or pension charts for widows? There are […]

 From the publishers:“The precepts laid down are the result of the experience acquired in the war in the Peninsula, from the first battle of Roliça in 1808, to the last in Belgium, of Waterloo in 1815… They have been the means of saving the lives, and of relieving, if not even of preventing, the miseries […]

 From the publishers:Lucien Rousselot is one of the world's most important military artists, having played an integral role in establishing uniformology as a true science. He was born in France at a time when the 1871 military defeat by Prussia was still very present in the psyche of the French people. It is no surprise, therefore, […]

 From the publishers:Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two – the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution – have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third – the romantic revolution – was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultural axioms of the modern […]

From the publishers: Visiting the Opera House during its construction phase, the French empress Eugenie took it upon herself to interrogate Charles Garnier on the historical inspiration behind the building’s décor: “But what is the style? It’s not classical, it’s not mediaeval, it’s not Renaissance.” “It is Second Empire, Ma’am,” replied the architect. The rest […]

 The beautifully orchestrated meeting between Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit proved to be the turning point in 1807. Indeed, the year can be quite neatly divided into two clear and distinct halves: pre- and post-Tilsit. The first semester, cold and uncertain, followed on naturally from the war-torn December of 1806, with a long and difficult […]

 During the last years of his life, Napoleon set to dictating his memoirs. These texts should not, however, be confused with the memoirs published by his companions in exile, the success of which has often seen the French emperor's own account of his life left in the dark. Conscious of the remarkable nature of his […]

 From the publishers:An illustrious pre-Romantic, idealistic and wasteful, the Count of Fuentes was a key player in the murky intrigue that they engulfed the Spanish crown and saw it removed from the head of the Bourbons and placed in the hands of Napoleon. Bon vivant and raised in a family torn between the precepts of […]

 From the publishers:German troops formed the majority of Wellington's forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the King's German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle. The actions of the King's German Legion – an integral part of the […]

 From the publishers:Between 1870 and 1871, the world changed forever. The Franco-Prussian War is often a forgotten war, its significance lost amidst larger conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. But, whilst it lasted less than a year, its aftermath would shape the course of history for decades to come.In this comprehensive account, […]