Publications : 38
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PublicationWaterloo 1815: Wavre, Plancenoit and the Race to Paris
From the publishersHistories of the Waterloo campaign and tours of the battlefield generally concentrate on the battle between the armies of Napoleon and Wellington and the role of Blucher's Prussians is left in the background. This account tells how the Prussians advanced towards the battlefield and records the decisive fight that broke out when they […]
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Publication(et al.) In the wake of Napoleon, The Dutch in time of War 1792-1815
This book is in English (despite the cover photo) and is the full-colour catalogue of the recent exhibition in the Netherlands. From the publishers:Tens of thousands of Dutch soldiers fought for Napoleon, not only in the Netherlands but in Belgium, Spain, Germany, Poland and Russia. Many died during the Russian campaign in 1812. Napoleon was forced […]
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Publication(ed.) Fiddlers and Whores: the candid memoirs of a surgeon in Nelson’s fleet
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 […]
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PublicationLe général Gourgaud
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 […]
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PublicationWar to the death: the sieges of Saragossa, 1808-1809
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 […]
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PublicationBalades napoléoniennes dans Paris. Consulat et Premier Empire, Karine Huguenaud
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. […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Mamelukes
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 […]
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PublicationThe Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
From the publishers: How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien […]