Publications : 64
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PublicationNapoleon: A Symbol for an Age: A Brief History with Documents
By calming revolutionary turbulence while preserving fundamental gains of 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte laid the foundations of modern France. But his impact reached beyond France's borders as well. His legacy of war, civil rights, exploitation, and national awakening reshaped identities across the European continent, while in the Atlantic world he destroyed the colonial order and helped […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Double (novel)
Seven conscripts from a village near Dijon set out to follow Napoleon on his campaign to conquer Egypt. Children of the Enlightenment, they are filled with wonder by all they see, and by the Great Man who is their leader. Their lives are fraught with danger, and three die. One of the band, who looks […]
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PublicationFROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND
F.-G. Hourtoulle has explored the Napoleonic epic for more than forty years and, for the past eight years, he has been producing books for enthusiasts, filled with colour graphics and contemporary paintings. Continuing on from Jena, Auestaedt , Borodino, Wagram, and 1814 comes this latest volume on Friedland. From Berlin to Tilsitt, Napoleon led the […]
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PublicationFrench Hussars Vol 3: From the 9th to the 14th Regiment, 1804-1818 (Officers and Soldiers)
This volume deals with the Hussars (from the 9th to the 14th Regiment) for the period 1804-1812. There is a chapter given over to the 1812 Regulations which fixed the broad outlines and the 6 regiments are analysed, together with the uniforms worn between 1812 and 1818.
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PublicationThe Death of Napoleon: the last campaign
From the publishers: Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5th, 1821 on the island of St Helena from complications of stomach cancer proven by autopsy. However, when analyses of trace elements on single strands of hair became available in the 1960s, it was found that some samples of his hair contained increased levels of arsenic which lead […]
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Publication(ed.) St Helena, then and now
This book is a collection of beautiful photographs of the island accompanying two previously unpublished period texts giving a military and civil report on the island during the time of Napoleon's captivity there. One, the “Military Report on the island of St Helena, May 16th 1816”, by Major Emmett with the assistance of Basil Jackson […]
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PublicationThe French Macdonald. Journey of a Marshal of Napoleon in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Marshal Macdonald,Duke of Tarentum. The 1825 Travel Diary of Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, with translation and commentary by Jean-Didier Hache and Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart
From the publishersIn 1746, Neil MacEachen left his native South Uist for the last time – in the company of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and hunted by Hanoverian forces on land and sea. Three-quarters of a century later, Neil's son, Marshal Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France, created Duke of Tarentum by Napoleon, and High Chancellor […]
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PublicationServing Napoleon’s European Dream. Military conscription and the disruption of the rural community of Weert
An intimate account of the rural community of Weert (Southern Netherlands) in the age of Napoleon. This small-scale society was disrupted by the introduction of military conscription. In the end, 12% of its male population served in Napoleon's army. Half of them never returned… In lively portraits both conscripts and their relatives come to life, […]
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PublicationThe Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
From the publishers:The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain – the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet, within ten months Napoleon will enter […]
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PublicationCrisis in the Snows: Russia Confronts Napoleon; The Eylau Campaign 1806-1807
From the publishers:[This book] removes the shroud of Napoleon's propaganda to portray the demoralizing reality of the winter campaign in Poland. Napoleon's Grande Armée is revealed not as a smoothly oiled machine but rather a war-weary force whose soldiers doubted that France's security required a march into Poland. Yet, when summoned to battle by a […]