Publications : 38
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PublicationWellington’s Spies
From the publishers:Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it – by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellington's most daring and successful Intelligence Officers. The three men, all of Scottish descent, were very different […]
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PublicationThe Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte With His Brother Joseph … Selected and Translated, With Explanatory Notes, From the ‘Memoires Du Roi Joseph’ A Du Casse, Vol. 2.
A very useful reprint of Napoleon's private correspondence with his favourite brother. Although be sure to compare the text with that published in the Correspondance générale. Much that appears there was not included by Du Casse and as such does not appear here.
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PublicationBonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835
From the publishers:Bonapartists in the Borderland recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventures to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt […]
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PublicationLa diplomazia dei Cento Giorni: Napoleone e il Congresso di Vienna
From the publishers:Following Napoleon's abdication and his departure for Elba, the plenipotentiaries of Europe met in Vienna to decide the new layout of the continent.Just at the moment when tensions amongst the negotiators began to fall away and a successful conclusion to the talks was in sight, news arrived that Napoleon had landed in France, […]
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PublicationThe War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 – 1815
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 […]
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PublicationEnding the French Revolution. Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
From the publishers:For two centuries, the early years of the French Revolution have inspired countless democratic movements around the world. Yet little attention has been paid to the problems of violence, justice, and repression between the Reign of Terror and the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. In Ending the French Revolution, Howard Brown analyzes these years […]
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PublicationSix Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
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 […]
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PublicationLes Trésors de l’Empéri, L’armée de Napoléon, la collection Raoul et Jean Brunon
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 […]
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PublicationNaval Engagements: Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815
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 […]
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PublicationThat Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
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 […]