Publications

From the publishers: Triumphant on the field of battle, Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries Eugénie, but how long will their passion survive? The tragic tale of Clisson and Eugénie reveals one of history’s great leaders as an accomplished writer of fiction. Completed when he was only 26, […]

 From the publishers:Much has been written on Napolean's ill-fated invasion of Russia, but from the Grande Armee's point of view, their bold crossing of the River Nieman and capture of Moscow, and their eventual destruction by the Russian winter. In 1812: Russia's Patriotic War, Laurence Spring looks at the conflict from a Russian standpoint, using […]

Paperback available from September 2018 From the publishers: Responding to the enemy’s innovation in war presents problems to soldiers and societies of all times. This book traces Napoleon’s victory over Prussia in 1806 and Prussia’s effort to recover from defeat to show how in one particular historical episode operational analyses together with institutional and political […]

 From the publishers:In 1814, after two successive years of defeat in Russia and central Europe, Napoleon was faced with the ultimate disaster – an Allied invasion of France itself. The conduct of the intense, fast-moving campaign that followed has been widely hailed as one of his greatest feats as a commander, yet it has rarely […]

 From the publishers:In Napoleon's Britons, Paul Brunyee presents a fresh study of Napoleon's last years as a captive on St Helena, telling the story of this final chapter in Bonaparte's life as seen through the eyes of the Britons around him. The Royal Navy officers to whom he surrendered; the people of Brixham who came […]

 From the publishers:Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived a life of milking cows […]

 From the publishers:How does one go about raising children to be future leaders? Can there be fundamental principles to apply that might shape the thinking of a child towards developing the skills and point of view that are critical components of a leader? This book, originally published in 1820 under the title A System of […]

 From the publishers:Despite his posthumous triumph at Trafalgar, the Battle of the Nile is often rated by historians as Nelson's greatest and most complete victory. His daring decision to take his fleet into shallow and uncharted waters in Aboukir Bay in order to catch the anchored French fleet napping and rake them simultaneously with broadsides […]

 This illustrated book gives a detailed account of the famous meeting at Erfurt between the two great men. It has also been translated into Italian by M. Lumachi and P. Scotini and published by Donzelli (2009) under the title Il poeta e l'imperatore. About the authorGustav Seibt is well-known in Germany as a journalist specialising in cultural matters […]

 An account of the famous meeting and conversation between Napoleon, Goethe and Wieland in October 1808. this book was published to coincide with the bicenteary of the meeting in Erfurt.  About the AuthorRita Seifert is a language teacher and city and museum guide for the town of Weimar in Germany. This is her first Napoleonic […]