Publications : 65
-
PublicationInside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
From the publishers:In this companion volume to her 2009 book, Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather than focusing on the history of the 30th Regiment of the Line in action and on campaign, she explores its organization, traditions and hierarchy, […]
-
PublicationThe Napoleonic Empire and the new European political culture (in Spanish)
The proceedings of the international conference “Imperio napoleónico y la nueva cultura política europea”, held in Madrid in April 2008, have been published in Spanish. This collection of articles, edited by Michael Broers, Agustín Guimerá and Peter Hicks, takes a look at the Napoleonic Empire and the birth of a new European political culture, and […]
-
PublicationLouis-Napoléon prisonnier. Du Fort de Ham aux ors des Tuileries (in French)
In 1840, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, in exile since his uncle Napoleon I was chased from the French throne, attempted a night-time landing on the beaches of Boulogne. His goal: to march on Paris. Alas, the attempt was to fail miserably: captured with ease, the prince became the laughing stock of France and was sentenced to life […]
-
PublicationMémoires de Napoléon: La campagne d’Egypte (Vol. II) (in French)
From the publishers: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 […]
-
PublicationPalmerston
From the publishers:A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784–1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the […]