Publications

  From the publishers:World War I has been called “the war to end all wars”, the first time combatants were mobilized on a massive scale to ruthlessly destroy an enemy. But as David Bell argues in this […] interpretive history, the Great War was not, in fact, the first total war. For this, we need […]

  From the publishers:At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the cataclysm of Revolution which ripped the absolute King from the throne […]

From the publishers:For many contemporaries, Napoleon was the catalyst for social and political change: he brought with him the French Revolution into French occupied states, in particular the Code Napoléon. The Left bank of the Rhine became a French state in 1801. And the French satellite states on the right bank integrated the Napoleonic novelties […]

Before becoming the high priest of Operetta in Second Empire Paris, Offenbach was a virtuoso of the cello; indeed he was called ‘the cello Lizst'. In April 1847 he performed for the first time his magnificent cello concerto, but it was subsequently forgotten. IN later years, different movements were unearthed but the work was never […]

 From BooklistNot confined to sea battles, Toll's history of the U.S. Navy's formative decades, from the mid-1790s to the War of 1812, rounds out affairs by anchoring the nascent navy to its financial supports. Navies are not inexpensive, and the costs of building and maintaining ships appear lightly but persistently in Toll's narrative. It centers […]

This sumptuously illustrated bi-lingual French/English book is hommage to the collection established by Raoul and Jean Brunon at the Empéri museum and presents in minute detail the finest objects in the collection, (uniforms, arms, accessories, engravings), selected by the author Vincent Bourgeot.  Book available in different version (leather or cloth binding) To order, click here.SPECIAL OFFER […]

 From the publishers:The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements , looking at the ways in which the navy – a major symbol of national community – was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural history of national identity, a […]

 From the publishers:Two of the most popular, innovative and controversial fields of historical study are cultural history and the history of nationalism. This volume brings these two areas together by addressing a central concern of recent research on the cultural history of Europe: the transition from the cosmopolitan culture of the Enlightenment to the self-consciously […]

Though this is not a book specifically about Napoleon it does (of course) have a long central section on Napoleon I and Napoleon III is not forgotten. The format too recommends itself to Napoleonic readers: the English viewpoint given by the British academic husband and the French is given by the French wife. This is […]

From the publishers: Napoleon won his final victory on June 16th, 1815 at Ligny, shortly before suffering [the culminating] defeat at Waterloo. Facing two enemy armies – Wellington’s Anglo-Allied and Bluecher’s Prussian – he aimed his main attack against Bluecher at Ligny and diverted Wellington’s attention by engaging his forward elements at Quatre Bras. The […]