Publications : 93
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PublicationThe Burning of Moscow, Napoleon’s Trial by Fire 1812
From the publishers: As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve […]
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PublicationLA GUERRE SECRÈTE DE NAPOLÉON – ÎLE D’ELBE 1814-1815 (NAPOLEON’S SECRET WAR, ELBA 1814-1815)
The nine-month reign of a giant of Lilliput: intrigue, secrets and preparations for the return finally laid bare.Napoleon stayed three hundred days on the island of Elba, from 3 May, 1814, to 26 February, 1815. This period if often seen as an interlude in the ‘epic' of Napoleon's life, so much did it seem like […]
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PublicationNapoleon in America (a novel)
From the publishers: What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States in 1821? Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in […]
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PublicationNapoleon: Soldier of Destiny, volume I
This is volume one of Michael Broers’ biography of Napoleon. Yes, it’s Napoleon’s life story. But there are some striking new takes which make it a fascinating read. One that spoke to me was Broers’ insistence on the Corsican childhood. The Oxford academic’s distinction between Corsicans of the interior and the Corsican coastlanders (aptly set […]
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PublicationLe mal napoléonien (Essay, in French)
“I have long been pondering on, and turning over in my mind, the place taken by Napoleon Bonaparte in our national consciousness, the glory attached to his name. I have long been struck by the mark he has left on our history. I wrote this book as a politician, as a man with an inside […]
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PublicationBaudelaire’s Revenge: A Novel
From the publishers: Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Crime Novel “It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city […]
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PublicationNapoléon et la campagne de France 1814
From the publishers: As a result of an astonishing series of victories (Champaubert, Montmirail, Monterau or Craonne…), Napoleon was able to place the French Campaign at the heart of the legend of his life. Indeed, he was not wrong to do so. Irrespective of the fact that it ends with the Emperor's abdication, it was […]
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PublicationWondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
From the publishers: From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers […] and Civil War Wives […], here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and […]
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PublicationLes vingt jours de Fontainebleau. La première abdication de Napoléon 31 mars-20 avril 1814
History the right way round: in his most recent, beautifully written book, Thierry Lentz investigates the complex circumstances of the end of the Empire, from 31 March to the capitulation of Paris, on 20 April, 1814, the day on which the fallen Emperor left for the island of Elba. It turns out that the traditional […]
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PublicationWellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity 1815-2015
From the publishers: The Battle of Waterloo was a defining moment in world history. Rightly, the battle has been immortalised and 2015 sees the bi-centenary of the battle. Wellington and Waterloo is the first book to analyse and trace how perceptions of the battle have changed over two hundred years. Waterloo made didn't just make nations […]