Publications : 53
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PublicationNapoléon et Joseph Bonaparte : Le pouvoir et l’ambition (in French)
From the publishers:A complex character, unfulfilled in his military career, and frequently misunderstood, the image of Joseph Bonaparte often pales in comparison with the legend that surrounds his younger brother, Napoleon. Nicknamed the “casual king” and portrayed as lazy, the “meilleur des frères” comes across as a weak individual who accepted the crowns “snatched away from […]
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PublicationAn Atlas of the Peninsular War
From the publishers:This is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here Ian Robertson examines and explains the sequence of battles and the course of the war through expertly drawn cartography in colour. A […]
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PublicationThe British Army against Napoleon: Facts, Lists and Trivia 1805-1815
From the publishers:Where else will you find not just the pay of different ranked officers but the amount of income tax they paid, as well as all the other deductions and stoppages that reduced their actual receipts to a fraction of their nominal (and generally quite low) pay? Or pension charts for widows? There are […]
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PublicationGuthrie’s War: A Surgeon of the Peninsula and Waterloo
From the publishers:“The precepts laid down are the result of the experience acquired in the war in the Peninsula, from the first battle of Roliça in 1808, to the last in Belgium, of Waterloo in 1815… They have been the means of saving the lives, and of relieving, if not even of preventing, the miseries […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Army 1790 – 1815
From the publishers:Lucien Rousselot is one of the world's most important military artists, having played an integral role in establishing uniformology as a true science. He was born in France at a time when the 1871 military defeat by Prussia was still very present in the psyche of the French people. It is no surprise, therefore, […]
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PublicationThe Romantic Revolution
From the publishers:Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two – the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution – have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third – the romantic revolution – was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultural axioms of the modern […]
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PublicationCorrespondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 7, 1807 – Tilsit, l’apogée de l’Empire (in French)
The beautifully orchestrated meeting between Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit proved to be the turning point in 1807. Indeed, the year can be quite neatly divided into two clear and distinct halves: pre- and post-Tilsit. The first semester, cold and uncertain, followed on naturally from the war-torn December of 1806, with a long and difficult […]
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PublicationMémoires de Napoléon: la Campagne d’Italie (Vol. I) (in French)
During the last years of his life, Napoleon set to dictating his memoirs. These texts should not, however, be confused with the memoirs published by his companions in exile, the success of which has often seen the French emperor's own account of his life left in the dark. Conscious of the remarkable nature of his […]
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PublicationThe Waterloo Archive Volume 2: German Sources
From the publishers:German troops formed the majority of Wellington's forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the King's German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle. The actions of the King's German Legion – an integral part of the […]
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PublicationThe War that Changed the World
From the publishers:Between 1870 and 1871, the world changed forever. The Franco-Prussian War is often a forgotten war, its significance lost amidst larger conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. But, whilst it lasted less than a year, its aftermath would shape the course of history for decades to come.In this comprehensive account, […]