Publications

A detailed bibliography of works in Italian on Napoleon and Napoleonic matters. Difficult to use but a mine of important work on Napoleonic Italy. Extract from Bibliografia dell'età del Risogimento, 1970-2001, volume I,; also pusblished by Olschki. Renata de Lorenzo is of Modern History at the University of Naples, Italy.

Replica of 1907 edition by Gay and Bird, London, of the four-volume work on Napoleon as a military figure by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842 – 1909), published by the e-publishers Elibron.

This, volume two, deals with 1798-1799, the Egyptian Campaign and the accession to power, general Bonaparte getting to grips with his dream of the Orient: a region with a difficult climate, complicated daily organisation, popular revolts, war. The perfect moment for Napoleon to show his sense of organisation and his remarkable ability to improvise, his […]

Based on the honorific tradition of the Ancien régime, the Order of the Légion d'honneur created by Napoleon recognised for the first time not only military but also civic merit. It is still a key symbol of modern France. The first part of this book, the fruit of original research and richly illustrated in colour, […]

 From the press:'Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the […]

Nelson was a prolific letter-writer, sometimes writing an average of 10 letters every day. Until recently it was believed that most of those letters had been published. However, during his five-year Nelson Letter Project, Colin White uncovered around 1,200 new or unpublished letters. This book presents over five hundred of these, dating from 1777-1805, which […]

 From the publishers:Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the nineteenth century. This […] biography, written by a […] popular historian, concentrates on his […] private life. Superb politician, orator, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli was – according to Queen Victoria – 'the kindest Minister' she had ever had, who 'reached the top […]

Robert Wilson served with the British expedition to Egypt in 1800, and his book on the campaign is most famous for having made the false charge that Napoleon had poisoned 20,000 prisoners at Jaffa, a calumny the Emperor was denying the rest of his life. These two volumes are a reprint of the 1803 edition […]

 From the Press:Eighteenth-century Parisian salons were venues for the social and political vanguard that were presided over by a succession of brilliantly clever women, the cleverest of whom was Madame de Staël. Born the daughter of a powerful banker, she married unsuccessfully, taking lovers as consolation – Talleyrand among them – and her life became […]

This book co-authored by Michael & Martin George (father and son amateur local historians) have produced a very interesting book of the local history of the Kent coast (UK) for the chronological period running from the Boulogne Camp up to the First World War. Chapters 1-3 are of particular interest for the Napoleon I enthusiast. […]