Publications : 93
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PublicationFrance in the Maltese Collective Memory Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British MaltaPublisher’s presentation: Retrieving memories from the French interlude of 1798-1800 the author presents current academic theories of collective memory and researched documents – some for the first time – in Malta and abroad to argue the case for Malta’s identity as perceived by different generations…
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PublicationCatherine Exley’s Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War
by Rebecca Probert (Author), Richard Woodhead (Contributor), Prof Charles Esdaile (Contributor), Naomi Pullin (Contributor), Prof Giorgio Riello(Contributor), Elodie Duché (Contributor), Dr Thomas Cardoza (Contributor). From the publishers: Catherine Exley was born in Leeds in 1779. Aged thirty, she boarded a ship and sailed for Portugal. Her memoir of the years she spent following the 34th Regiment is unique, the only first-hand account of the Peninsular War by the […]
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PublicationHMS Bellerophon
From the publishers: “The story of HMS Bellerophon is a record of the many and varied duties which the Royal Navy had to carry out in the period 1793 – 1815. It was involved in the first great fleet action of the War and was involved in the last moments of the struggle with the […]
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PublicationNapoleone in Piemonte
[This book is in Italian] The war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Sardinia, which broke out in 1792 and continued until the armistice of Cherasco in 1796, was the most important event for the fate of Piedmont in the eighteenth century. The final act of this conflict allowed the young general Napoleon […]
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PublicationA History of the Royal Navy: Napoleonic Wars
From the publishers: “The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wider wars and, for Britain, the key factor in her eventual emergence as the only naval power capable of sustained global hegemony. The most iconic battles of any era were fought at […]
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PublicationRomanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years
From the publishers:Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity – […]
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PublicationHow Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Though most people […]
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PublicationBlack Rock: The Story of an Island, an Exile and an Emperor (a novel)
Should ambition cease with death? Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't think so. His ghost is actually hungrier than ever. The ex-emperor has no intention of allowing his premature end to thwart his destiny or threaten his legacy. But death holds unexpected surprises for the restless spirit of the nineteenth-century's most infamous tactician. Set in 1821 on the […]
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PublicationNapoleon Symphony – A Novel in Four Movements
First published in 1974. The writer and composer Anthony Burgess was fascinated with Napoleon from a very early age. In 1971 he wrote the beginnings of a novel based on Napoleon's life that Stanley Kubrick hoped to use as the basis for a film. The novel took the formal structure of Beethoven's Third Symphony (the Eroica, […]
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PublicationBlücher: Scourge of Napoleon (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
From the publisher: “One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Blücher distinguished himself as a bold commander, but his actions at times appeared […]