Publications : 65
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PublicationL’été en enfer, Napoléon III dans la débâcle (in French)
From the publishers:August 1870, the imperial army is defeated, the regime collapses, France is invaded. The sudden collapse of the Second Empire shook the whole of Europe and ushered in one hundred years of unstable decline for France. Much has been written about this “debacle”, this “annus horribilis”. However, in all these writings, there is nothing […]
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PublicationL’Armée d’Italie. Des missionnaires armés à la naissance de la guerre napoléonienne (in French)
This book is a study of the Armée d'Italie between 1792 and 1797. During the period, this war machine mobilised by the Revolution was a petri dish for strategic and tactical experimentation. Over the course of a long positional war strung out along the Alps, the revolutionary army proceeded to develop new methods of warfare. […]
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PublicationVoyage en Amérique 1861-1862. Un prince français dans la guerre de Sécession (in French)
From the publishers:For the young princes of Orléans – sent into exile by Napoleon III – the Second Empire was a time of idleness. Louis Philippe's grandsons, the Comte de Paris (twenty-three years old) and his brother, the Duc de Chartres (twenty-one years old) resolved to visit the United States and learn about American democracy. Arriving […]
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PublicationItalia napoleonica: Dizionario critico (in Italian)
From the publishers:In the Napoleonic period, Italy, along with a large part of Europe, underwent a sudden and often brutal, unsystematic process of modernisation. In a brief space of time, her institutions, economic structures, social and cultural life was radically renewed, all this in a region which for several centuries had been characterised by Montesquieu […]
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PublicationMemorias sobre la guerra de los franceses en España (in Spanish)
These memoirs, written by Albert Jean Michel de Rocca in 1814, differ from other texts on the War of Independence written by French soldiers in their incisive tone, curiosity, and respect for the Spanish. Through Rocca's elegant descriptions of the Napoleonic army's struggles in Spain, the reader is presented with both the story of the […]
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PublicationChroniques de Sainte-Hélène Atlantique Sud (in French)
In October 1815, Napoleon and his companions, accompanied by a British garrison charged with guarding him, landed on a remote and rocky island in the middle of the South Atlantic. The quiet history of this tiny colony was to be changed forever by this unexpected arrival. With the history of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena […]
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PublicationThe Very Thing: The Memoirs of Drummer Richard Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1807-1823
From the publishers:Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures. His writings provide an evocative portrait of an ordinary soldier's perception of living with one of the most experienced Napoleonic infantry battalions. He was discharged in 1823 for ill health, […]
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PublicationAn Eloquent Soldier: the Peninsular War Journals of Lieutenant Charles Crowe of the Inniskillings, 1812-1814
From the publishers: Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published. Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time. But what makes it […]
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PublicationMurat (in Italian)
From the publishers:This book takes a look at the military and political career and subsequent downfall of Joachim Murat. Renata de Lorenzo presents this biography of the soldier who made his name on the battlefield, alongside Napoleon, and who later reigned as king of Naples. Taking in his humble origins, his phenomenally successful military career, […]
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PublicationUn laboratorio politico per l’Italia: La Repubblica romana del 1849 (in Italian)
A political laboratory for the creation of Italy: The Roman Republic of 1849 From the publishersThis rich volume is a collection of essays, documents and images recounting the places, the events, the protagonists, and the remembrance of the political foundations stones laid in 1849 in the construction of modern Italy.This brief historical episode left a rich […]