Publications

 From the publishers:By all accounts, Friedrich Lindau was a remarkable soldier of the King's German Legion. He served with distinction under Wellington from Lisbon to as far as Bayonne, and was involved in all major engagements, including Albuera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and San Sebastian.  Most notably, he fought and was captured at La Haie Sainte […]

 From the publishers:Few women, indeed few people, have had a greater hand in shaping their culture than the 18th century aristocrat Germaine de Staël. And few have done so in more spectacular fashion. For twenty years the Swiss-born Parisienne, the daughter of Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister, held sway over French society. Her reign […]

 From the publishers:A new battlefield guide to the Peninsular War is long overdue. Modern development in Spain and Portugal has encroached on many of the battlefields, new research has questioned established interpretations of events, and there is a broader appreciation of the parts played by all the armies involved – the French on one side […]

 From the publishers:For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and France, whose advanced economies could support large numbers of these expensive […]

 The Temeraire series follows the adventures of a British naval captain, William Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire. Written by the American author Naomi Novik, these books (five have already been produced) are a re-imagining of the Napoleonic wars, combining alternative history with fantasy and featuring an air corps comprised of dragons. The books are available in paperback, in audio-form […]

 Independent review:The 30th Regiment was already a unit with more than a hundred years of history behind it before the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, having been founded in 1689 by Sir George Sounderson, Bart., from Saxby in Lincolnshire. The author of this book focuses in particular on the action seen by the 2nd battalion […]

Major Richard Llewellyn, who fought at Quatre Bras, wrote in 1837 that, 'Had it not been so closely followed by the… victory of Waterloo, perhaps the gallant exploits and unexampled bravery that marked that day would… have excited even more admiration than was actually associated with it.' This book is the first English-language account to focus […]

After two years dedicated to the study of Leben und Kunst in Paris seit Napoleon I, the work first begun by Helmina von Chézy (1783-1856) in 1804, the new edition, edited by Bénédicte Savoy and recently published by the Akademie Verlag (Berlin), was unveiled at the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris. Alongside the actress […]

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition “Napoleon & Eugenie which is currently taking place at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbour, New York. The exhibition focusses on the Second Empire period, from 1852-1870, and the “triumphs of the reign of Napoleon and Eugenie”, drawing from the collection of Christopher Forbes, who describes Napoleon III […]

 From the publishers:The evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the […]