Publications

From the publishersThis is an illustrated guide that provides previously unpublished information into the field artillery and uniforms of the period. The first phase of the Napoleonic Wars began when Britain, Spain and Holland declared war on France in February 1793 and continued until the peace of Amiens in March 1802. However, the peace was […]

 From the publishersThis is an illustrated book including 84 scale drawings, 23 figures and over 260 photographs of ordnance. It is an introduction to the subject for the collector, military historian; model maker, re-enactor, and wargamer. The book is a result of over a decade of research. It traces the development of the ordnance, its […]

By calming revolutionary turbulence while preserving fundamental gains of 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte laid the foundations of modern France. But his impact reached beyond France's borders as well. His legacy of war, civil rights, exploitation, and national awakening reshaped identities across the European continent, while in the Atlantic world he destroyed the colonial order and helped […]

 From the publishersIn1809, the forces of Napoleon's Grande Armee are in Austria. For young Lieutenant Lukas Relmyer, it is hard to return to the place where he and fellow orphan Franz, were kidnapped four years previously. Franz was brutally murdered and Lukas has vowed to avenge his death. When the body of another orphan is […]

 From the publishersHow does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her, paradoxically gave Madame de Stael a freedom that enabled her to be as active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early […]

 From the publishersThe many battles fought by Wellington have always excited interest and controversy. What is not always remembered is that almost all of the fighting on land between British and French troops during the Napoleonic period took place in Portugal and Spain. Thus the extended struggle became known as the Peninsular War. What sets […]

 Seven conscripts from a village near Dijon set out to follow Napoleon on his campaign to conquer Egypt. Children of the Enlightenment, they are filled with wonder by all they see, and by the Great Man who is their leader. Their lives are fraught with danger, and three die. One of the band, who looks […]

 1892. Book about the state of France before the Revolution to the fall of Napoleon.

 The text, based upon extensive research, describes both the battle and the campaign that preceded it in detail, drawing upon the firsthand accounts of participants on all sides. This book can become a collector's item due to the many full colour maps, all specially commissioned for the book, and the numerous diagrams and photographs, the […]

A contemporary memoir describing the Waterloo campaign.