Publications : 93
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PublicationTHE QUEEN, HER LOVER AND THE MOST NOTORIOUS SPY IN HISTORY
From the publishers: “Long before her successful marriage to Prince Albert, Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish 13th Lord Elphinstone. After the liaison was exposed, Elphinstone was banished to India, appointed Governor of Madras, which allowed Victoria's mother to engineer a royal union for her with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. After five years […]
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PublicationWaterloo: A New History
From the publishers: “In time for the bicentennial in 2015, a veteran historian brings the campaign and battle, its armies and their commanders, to fresh and vivid life in his […] new military history of one of the key battles in world history.Wellington remarked that Waterloo was “a damned nice thing,” meaning uncertain or finely balanced. He […]
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PublicationThe War of 1812, Conflict and Deception: The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
From the publishers: “Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interference and impressment of American sailors, the war in many ways was the second battle for United States independence. At the climax of […]
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PublicationThe End of Empire: Napoleon’s 1814 Campaign
From the publishers: “The End of Empire is a continuation of Nafziger's […] military studies of the Napoleonic era beginning with the 1812 campaign and progressing through the 1813 campaign. Having suffered a massive reversal of fortunes in Russia Napoleon found himself confronted, in Germany, by the combined forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. After the disaster […]
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PublicationThe Lie at the Heart of Waterloo: The Battle’s Hidden Last Half Hour
From the publishers: “Waterloo has, perhaps, a greater claim to have left its mark on Europe than any single battle before it, yet, even after two hundred years, there is confusion about how the battle ended. Readers will believe they know perfectly well how Wellington gave the order to the men of the First Foot Guards […]
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PublicationWaterloo 1815: The British Army’s Day of Destiny
From the publishers: “Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described ‘a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely recognised – even in its immediate wake – as one of […]
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PublicationPrelude to Waterloo Quatre Bras: The French Perspective
From the publishers: “The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign – to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blücher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo itself. And […]
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PublicationThe Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy After Napoleon
From the publishers: “…Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest crises in its history. In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna to reconstruct Europe after two decades of revolution and war, with the major decisions made by the statesmen of the great powers – Castlereagh, Metternich, […]
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PublicationIn These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815
From the publishers: “…We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars – but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers […]
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PublicationCorrespondance Générale de Napoléon Bonaparte. Volume 10. Un Grand Empire: March 1810 – March 1811.
Volume 10 of the Correspondance Générale de Napoléon Bonaparte covers what Thiers called “a quiet year” in the history of the Empire, the period from March 1810 to March 1811. Its editors, Annie Jourdan, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and Michel Roucaud, of the Service Historique de la Défense, have shone their spotlight on […]