Publications

This study by the Austrian military historian Herbert Zima, who worked with Austrian, German and Italian sources, is published in four languages, Italian, French, German and English. In it the author contends that without the Neapolitan defeat the Battle of Waterloo could have gone the other way. The book can be bought directly from the Tolentino […]

The aim of this book was two fold, so the author tells us. Firstly it was to recount a formative moment in the history of the militia of Upper Canada, and secondly it was to provide a detailed study of a battle dalt with with summarily in a pamphlet written over a hundred years ago […]

This book is an insidious one. Firmly 'legende noire' in its treatment, it makes much use of source material to back up its never wavering criticism. Unfortunately, some of it is hearsay – as Smith admits himself, but quotes anyway… (p. 53)There are furthermore strange omissions. The Timeline is missing not only the whole of […]

Rather than a political treatment of the 'French period' (as the Romans calls it), this book goes from bottom to top, recounting what you might call “experience of life” during a nineteen-year period in the history of the city of Rome. As Susan Nicassio herself puts it, “[it] is a book about Rome and Romans […]

Here J. David Markham brings for the first time to the English-speaking public the complete memoirs of James Roche Verling, the man who would have been Napoleon's doctor. In fact Verling never met Napoleon (despite residing in Longwood for almost a year), but his memoirs give a vivid picture of the social round and the […]

Exceptionally fine book, with detailed articles by the best specialists. Very many previously unpublished photos. THE reference. La « petite Isle » (The “Small Ile”)Sainte-Hélène, un aperçu historique (St Helena in history), Michel Dancoisne-MartineauPourquoi Sainte-Hélène ? (Why St Helena?), Jacques-Olivier BoudonCaptivité (The captivity)Les soixante-huit mois de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (Napoleon's 68 months on St Helena), Jacques […]

 From the press:“The starting point of Roger Knight's […] new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him […] in the context of the Royal Navy of the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic […]

 From the press:Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry […]

 From the press:The period of mid-Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities – Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities – Peabody, Burdett Coutts […]

 From the press:The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700, far more often in office than their arch-rivals the Tories. Yet the Whigs were much more than simply a group of politicians. An exclusive set, composed of the greatest and wealthiest families, the Whig world was […]