Publications

 From the publishers:The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain – the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet, within ten months Napoleon will enter […]

 From the publishers:[This book] removes the shroud of Napoleon's propaganda to portray the demoralizing reality of the winter campaign in Poland. Napoleon's Grande Armée is revealed not as a smoothly oiled machine but rather a war-weary force whose soldiers doubted that France's security required a march into Poland. Yet, when summoned to battle by a […]

From the publishers: Paul Deleage, a young correspondent attached to the prestigious French newspaper Le Figaro, was sent to report on the Prince Imperial’s African adventure during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. In fact, Deleage was the only French journalist to cover the war. His account of the three months he spent with the British […]

From the publishers:On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific – and controversial – contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key […]

 From the publishers:June 1812. Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armee is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied by battle. When an innocent woman is brutally stabbed Captain Quentin Margont of the 84th regiment is put in charge […]

 From the publishers:Bonaparte's Grande Armée, one of the most renowned battle-winning machines in history, evolved from a merging of the professional army of the Ancien Régime and the volunteers and conscripts of the Revolutionary levée en masse – although the contribution of the former is often underestimated. A leading authority on the history of tactics […]

From the publishers:This book gives a thoroughgoing survey of the Austrian army from its initial organisation trhough its subsequent reforms. As well as detailing all the major battles and campaigns, it explains clearly the political, economic and social climate of Austria in the period in order to place the Austrian army in its context. The […]

 From the publishers:This book […] was first published in 1978 and concentrates on the techniques and conditions of warfare at the fighting level rather than strategic interpretation or analysis of the major commanders. As Napoleon himself once said: “There are many good generals but they see too many things at once”. Professor Rothenberg's erudite study […]

From the publishers:First translated in English in 1914, Napoleon at work is a detailed, step-by-step analysis of the military tactics and methods adopted by Napoleon Bonaparte in the time leading up to, and during, the Jena Campaign in 1806. Written by the […] French tactician and strategist Colonel Vachée, it examines and illustrates the military […]

From the publishersNo other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory – or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? “Napoleon's Wars” is a book which […]