Publications : 1273
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PublicationWellington’s Lieutenant, Napoleon’s Gaoler: the Peninsula Letters & St Helena Diaries of Sir George Ridout BinghamGareth Glover has here provided us with an edition and commentary on the experiences of Colonel Sir George Ridout Bingham (1777-1833) in Portugal and Spain, then his voyage to Saint Helena on Northumberland. It also includes letters written on Saint Helena found in Bingham’s papers. The book provides a welcome, previously-unpublished (it would appear) addition to […]
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PublicationMary Seacole
From the press:“The Times called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' – Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother's hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal […]
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PublicationThe Legend of NapoleonFrom the press:‘God was bored with Napoleon' wrote Victor Hugo and as is well-known, the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonising and horrifying death. The Emperor's real legacy is the modernising and beautifying of Paris, the official promotion of religious tolerance, the current […]
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PublicationNapoleon: History and Myth
A large, nicely illustrated book concerning Napoleon and the napoleonic legend.
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PublicationStopping Napoleon: War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean
This books recounts the Franco-British naval struggle in the Mediterranean post-Trafalgar, the siege of Capri, Murat's attack on Sicily, naval engagements of the coast of Spain and most notably in the Adriatic not far from Venice (cannon from this engagement have recently been salvaged).
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PublicationThe Emperor’s Last Victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram
From the press:In early July 1809 Napoleon crossed the Danube with 187,000 men to confront the Austrian Archduke Charles and an army of 145,000 men. The fighting that followed dwarfed in intensity and scale any previous Napoleonic battlefield, perhaps any in history: casualties on each side were over 30,000. The Austrians fought with great determination, […]
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PublicationAusterlitz: The Empire at Its Zenith
The Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 was Napoleon's most decisive victory. It was fought in Moravia against the combined forces of two other Empires – Austria and Russia – and it forced Austria to make the Treaty of Pressburg which undermined Napoleon's enemies to continue the Grand Alliance against him. This book follows the battle […]
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PublicationNapoleon and the Hundred Days
A traditional, semi-novelistic account of the Hundred Days and Waterloo.
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PublicationThe National Army Museum Book of Wellington’s Armies: Britain’s Triumphant Campaigns in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1808-1815
An account of what it was like to fight in Wellington's army during the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Sources include unpublished accounts from the museum's archive, dispatches and letters from the military commanders, officers and the ordinary soldier.
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PublicationMarch of Death: Sir John Moore’s Retreat to Corunna, 1808-1809
A graphic account of the retreat to Corunna.