Publications

From the publishers:The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans.  In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides an account of the war framed within […]

 This book, divided into short thematic sections, serves as an introduction to the Witt family, the château and, above all, the museum's collection. Featuring numerous photographs of the collection, the book also has a detailed family tree. Summary:A family in the Dordogne– Périgord, a home somewhere between Tunisia and Belgium– The family– The creation of the […]

This helpful book by Alberto Dati brings together for the first time in Italian two famous texts in English recounting Napoleon's last journeys. The first is Thomas Ussher's celebrated account of Napoleon's journey from Fontainebleau to Fréjus before embarking for Elba. The second is Admiral Cockburn's account of Napoleon's voyage from Plymouth to St Helena. […]

 King, emperor, admiral. 1810. The fall of the kingdom of Holland From the publishers:“Two hundred years ago, the Emperor Napoleon put an end to the Kingdom of Holland by annexing it to the French Empire. Louis tried to prevent the annexation, as did the Minister Roell and Admiral VerHuell, but all to no avail. French troops […]

 From the publishers:On 15 December 1840, the Mortal Remains of Napoleon I were interred under the Dome of Les Invalides, after twenty years on the island of St Helena. Now it was necessary to build a tomb worthy of the great man. It would take twenty years to finish it and transfer the imperial remains, […]

 From the publishers:Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven in this period of […]

 From the publishers:Psychoanalytic biography, or psychobiography, is the quintessential form of biography precisely because it attempts to map out the emotional life of the individual. No full-scale psychobiography of Napoleon has been published, thus the exciting new theories of psychoanalysis, which have changed radically since Freud, have never been applied to arguably the most compelling, […]

From the publishers:The sixth volume in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which mixes stories of dragons with Napoleonic history, has just been released. Following their defence of England against Napoleon's invasion, Tongues of Serpents sees Temeraire and Laurence stripped of rank and standing and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia. […]

From the publishers:Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) was an enigmatic figure – a revolutionary and a conservative, a professional soldier and an intellectual, a taciturn man who nevertheless was able to inspire the peoples of South America to follow his armies and accept his battle strategies. One of the great leaders in the wars for […]

From the publishers:Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years, Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His […]