Publications

 The members of the Bonaparte family come to life with the help of Seward, a popular historian. While many of the stories Seward recounts are quite amusing, he also emphasizes the tragedies caused by these wilful people, to whom Napoleon I (and later his nephew) seemingly could deny nothing.

 The author has chosen around 90 pictures by the great French botanical artist PJ Redouté (better known as a painter of roses), the largest number of Redouté paintings of Australian plants ever included in one book. While the British collected many plants in Australia and even grew hundreds of them in glasshouses, they did nothing […]

 F.-G. Hourtoulle has explored the Napoleonic epic for more than forty years and, for the past eight years, he has been producing books for enthusiasts, filled with colour graphics and contemporary paintings. Continuing on from Jena, Auestaedt , Borodino, Wagram, and 1814 comes this latest volume on Friedland. From Berlin to Tilsitt, Napoleon led the […]

 From the publishers:Betsy Bonaparte: The Belle of Baltimore is the story of Elisabeth Patterson, born in Baltimore and her love affair with the French emperor's younger brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. He was a navy officer, stationed in Martinique, who disobeyed orders, abandoned his post, and ran off to America to meet and marry Betsy. Mme. Bourguignon-Frasseto […]

From the publisher:This book is a novelistic treatment of Napoleon and Josephine's relationship during the period from the First Italian campaign to the Brumaire coup d'état.About the author:Sandra Gulland is an author. Previous titles include: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., HarperCollins, 1995.

 From the publisher:A study of Franco-Persian relations during the First Empire. About the author:Iradj Amini joined the Iranian Foreign Service in 1965 and served as Ambassador to Tunisia. Now working as a journalist, he has lived in Paris since 1992. 

 A BiographyFrom the publisher:  The book covers all the significant events and chapters in Napoleon's life: the important military campaigns, Napoleon's youth in Corsica, his marriages and affairs, his time on St. Helena, his economic policies and political and diplomatic strategies. About the author:Frank McLynn is a full-time writer. His book, The Jacobite Army in England, […]

 Cronin's biography presents Napoleon as the man he was, not the myth and not the legend. He presents Napoleon's accomplishments as well as his faults.  About the author: Vincent Cronin is a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer whose works have been widely translated into European languages. In addition to being a recipient of a […]

  From the publisher:Swords around a Throne is a detailed book of Napoleon's Grande Armee from its inception to its destruction and after. Background material is provided of the Ancien Regime's Royal Army and the armies of the French Revolution as well as allies, foreign troops in French service and the Grande Armee's enemies. Generals, captains, […]

 From the publisher:This account of the Napoleonic Wars was written by a young officer about the action he saw, the adventures he experienced, the battles he fought, and the escapes he engineered in the campaigns that brought Napoleon and his armies to Waterloo. This tale filled with bravado, duels and deceptions, recounts in detail the […]