Publications : 64
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PublicationGuide du collectionneur napoléonien
Everyone knows what Napoleon's hat looks like. Not many many realise however that there were different models at different periods in his life and that, even though rare, a Napoleon hat can still be had, although at a price. This useful guide gives details concerning the historical memorabilia, the jewels, and the furnishings of the […]
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PublicationThe First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
From the publishers:World War I has been called “the war to end all wars”, the first time combatants were mobilized on a massive scale to ruthlessly destroy an enemy. But as David Bell argues in this […] interpretive history, the Great War was not, in fact, the first total war. For this, we need […]
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PublicationNapoleon. Trikolore und Kaiseradler über Rhein und Weser, catalogue of the exhibition in Wesel
From the publishers:For many contemporaries, Napoleon was the catalyst for social and political change: he brought with him the French Revolution into French occupied states, in particular the Code Napoléon. The Left bank of the Rhine became a French state in 1801. And the French satellite states on the right bank integrated the Napoleonic novelties […]
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PublicationCD – Offenbach Romantique
Before becoming the high priest of Operetta in Second Empire Paris, Offenbach was a virtuoso of the cello; indeed he was called ‘the cello Lizst'. In April 1847 he performed for the first time his magnificent cello concerto, but it was subsequently forgotten. IN later years, different movements were unearthed but the work was never […]