Publications : 64
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PublicationBlue Berg – Britain Takes The Cape
The story of the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) the important struggle for the Cape of Good Hope 202 years ago, is now available in English: The 72nd Seaforths and 93rd Sutherland landed in Melkbos Bay on 6 January 1806 and in a lightning charge took the beach. Then General Sir David Baird unleashed his van, a […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Enfant Terrible: General Dominique Vandamme
A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s 200 Days (in Polish)
Commemorating Napoleon's 200-day campaign in Poland and eastern Prussia from 1806-1807, this book brings together photographs of the surrounding area, contemporary eye-witness accounts as well as commentaries, tables, maps, battle-plans and napoleonic postcards and illustrations, all detailing the various stages and battles of the campaign. Depicting the decisive phase, the album begins with Napoleon's operations at […]
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PublicationIn the Shadow of Nelson: The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
Many “great captains” in military history were well served by distinguished lieutenants, and Lord Horatio Nelson was certainly one of them. Denis Orde, author of Nelson's Mediterranean Command, now turns to one of the quintessential British admiral's closest friends and contemporaries, Vice Admiral Cuthbert “Cuddy” Collingwood, for whom the book's title, In the Shadow of […]
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PublicationSedan 1870: The Eclipse of France
An historian and former archivist who has translated two remarkable French memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War (The Reality of War, and The Shame of Defeat, 1870-1871: A French Army Surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War), Douglas Fermer's Sedan 1870 deals with an old battle which led to the collapse of an imperial dynasty and the appearance of a new power in European […]
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PublicationScripts of Kingship. Essays on Bernadotte and Dynastic Formation in an Age of Revolution
When French Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was elected heir to the Swedish throne in 1810, a dramatic dynastic venture commenced. In an age of revolutions, marked by political as well as cultural upheavals, the commoner from Pau was transformed into King Charles XIV John and the head of a new royal dynasty in Sweden and […]
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Publicationil potere marittimo in età moderna. Da Lepanto a Trafalgar (in Italian)
This book looks at naval power as a key component policy and national life. It aims to analyse to what extent, and how, naval power shaped the development of Europe, both in war and peace. The book examines the contribution of sea power as an instrument of defence and conquest, its direct effects on the […]
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PublicationCartografia napoleonica (in Italian)
This book is dedicated to cartography and the effects Napoleon's campaigns had on the representation of terrain. The reader is invted to consider Napoleon's particular style of cartography and its way of representing geographical features visually, as well as its establishment of the norms for modern cartography.
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PublicationQuand Napoléon inventait la France ("When Napoleon invented France"): Dictionary of administrative institutions and of the court during the Consulate and Empire
“Prefects, Council of State, Legion of Honour, Garde champêtres, Public Treasury, National Stud (Dépôt d'étalons), Palmes académiques (Academic palms), Grand Maréchal du Palais… Napoleon modernised some institutions and administrative structures and created other from scratch, changing the face of the country and paving the way for modern France.” Whilst there are many dictionaries on the […]
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PublicationThe Road to St Helena: Napoleon After Waterloo
The author is a distinguished Napoleonic scholar and biographer, and the Executive Vice President of the International Napoleonic Society. He lives in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. Although much has been written about Napoleon's return from the island of Elba and his seizure of power, campaign preparations and catastrophic defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815, little […]