Publications

It is always interesting when new memoirs are published on our period. And these are no exception. James Lowry was an Irish surgeon working in the British navy and as such had first hand experience of not only British operations in Egypt but also Naples during Nelson's time there. Prospective readers who, in view of […]

At last we have the volume all students of Napoleon on Saint Helena have been waiting for: a detailed, carefully researched biography of General Gourgaud. Jacques Macé, specialist on all things Helenian, is the first ever biographer of this key figure for the Saint Helena episode and for this work he had access to the private […]

This book (first published in 1974) by the novelist and writer Raymond Rudorff reads rather like A. G. MacDonell's celebrated study of Napoleon's marshalls, but without  the charm. There is much that is of interest to the general reader in this treatment of the war in Spain, but it is resolutely black legend and as […]

Ever wondered what Paris was like during the First Empire, with its town mansions, its palaces? With this book, travel back in time, to wander the street of Napoleonic Paris, visit the Bonapartes on Rue Chantereine, or visit the First Consul in his palace in Saint-Cloud or the Emperor in his palace at the Tuileries. […]

This catalogue of the exhibition of the same name includes six excellent essays by the best specialists, namely “Battle in a drawing room” by Cristina Cannelli and Giulia Gorgone, “The joy of Austerlitz” by Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, “The perfect battle” by Marco Gioannini and Giulio Massobrio, “Panorama's and panoramic wallpaper” by Marie Elisa Tittoni, “The […]

 From the press:This book is about politicisation and political choice, in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused intense fear. In these circumstances the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Republic – […]

The catalogue of this small exhibition held in Pauline's villa in Viareggio (Italy) not only includes entries of interest on the objects on display but also four articles, one by Giulia Gorgone of the Museo Napoleonico in Rome entitled “Paolina Bonaparte, the restless princess”, and three by Glauco Borella of the Sopraintendenza of Pisa, entitled […]

This Osprey title brings to a wide audience the uniforms and organisation of the colourful mamluks of Napleon's imperial guard. Originally cavalrymen from the Orient who came to France from Egypt after the Egyptian expedition, the Mamluks were to remain Napoleon's personal mounted Chasseurs regiment for the whole of the empire period. Whilst it is […]

 From the press Napoleon may have caused more men's deaths than any martial leader before him. Indeed, “the paths of glory Napoleon trod,” biographer Timothy Wilson-Smith estimates in his introduction, “led possibly one million Frenchmen, and maybe as many as four million men from other lands, to their graves.” Napoleon's peacetime accomplishments, however, have long survived […]

Written in a racy, journalistic style, this chronicle of the Prussian and Polish campaigns of 1806 is a informative and very readable. Always very “military history” in style, it depends heavily on memoir accounts, giving a very appealing 'eye-witness' quality to the writing. Whilst the author's general implicit stance of trying to knock Napoleon off […]