Publications

Until now, very little study has been dedicated to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia and the only Bonaparte brother to have witnessed the restoration of the empire under Napoleon III. Jacques-Olivier Boudon's new book, Le roi Jérôme, aims to redress this state of affairs and provide the reader with a detailed study of this multi-faceted […]

 From the publishers:When Napoleon Bonaparte took power in November 1799, he hammered home his intention to restore order in France and to re-establish a country scarred by a crisis that had lasted for ten years. He did not however wish to return to the founding principles of the Revolution but instead put an end to it, and […]

Catalogue of the exhibition Jérôme Napoléon, roi de Westphalie on display at the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau from 10 October 2008 to 8 January 2009, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2008. At a time when Napoleon dominated the European scene, his brothers and sisters installed on the various thrones across the continent played a decisive role […]

 From the publishers:Crushing defeats in Russia (1812) and Germany (1813) caused the collapse of Napoleon's empire and brought his enemies to the Rhine River at the close of 1813. With a depleted and exhausted army, Napoleon attempted to direct the defense of his frontier from the Alps to the North Sea from Paris while he […]

  From the publishers: In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, only twenty-eight, mounted the most audacious military campaign of his already spectacular career. With 335 ships, 40,000 soldiers, and a collection of scholars, artists, scientists, and inventors, he set sail for Egypt to establish an Eastern empire in emulation of Alexander the Great. Like everything Napoleon ever […]

 About the catalogue:The son of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent and started to assemble the remarkable art collection that he later installed in his Duchess Street house […]

For all those who think that they could have done a better job on the battlefield than Napoleon, Slitherine Strategies have released Commander: Napoleon at War, a turn-based strategy game for the PC. The game offers budding Napoleonic generals the opportunity to take control of la Grande Armée in the major campaigns between 1805 and […]

The story of the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) the important struggle for the Cape of Good Hope 202 years ago, is now available in English: The 72nd Seaforths and 93rd Sutherland landed in Melkbos Bay on 6 January 1806 and in a lightning charge took the beach. Then General Sir David Baird unleashed his van, a […]

A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command […]

Commemorating Napoleon's 200-day campaign in Poland and eastern Prussia from 1806-1807, this book brings together photographs of the surrounding area, contemporary eye-witness accounts as well as commentaries, tables, maps, battle-plans and napoleonic postcards and illustrations, all detailing the various stages and battles of the campaign. Depicting the decisive phase, the album begins with Napoleon's operations at […]