Publications

From the publishers: The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individuals who served on warships around the world. Most famous of all was Horatio […]

From the publishers: “If not a field marshal's baton, what did Napoleon's soldiers really carry in their backpacks? Napoleon's Infantry Handbook is an essential reference guide, filled with fascinating detail on the training, tactics, equipment, service and administration of Napoleon's infantry regiments. Based on contemporary training manuals, regulations and orders, Napoleon's Infantry Handbook details the everyday […]

 Franck FAVIER, Berthier, l'ombre de Napoléon, Paris, Editions Perrin, 355 pagesDavout, Lannes, Murat, Ney, Lefebvre… these are all well-known figures, synonymous with the dashing glory of the Napoleonic epic. Strangely, Berthier rarely appears in lists of this sort, as if he had not played an active role in the Emperor's successes and failures. And yet, […]

Portly squires and young dandies. Jane Austenesque heroines and their gruesome chaperones. Dashing young officers and corrupt politicians. The keenly observant satires by English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) make clear his sharp eye for current affairs as well as his appreciation of the humour in everyday life.High Spirits brings together nearly one hundred comic works […]

From the publishers: “Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has become known as its 'golden age of caricature'. This coincided with an era of dramatic social and political change both at home and abroad. In this period of intense international war and rivalry, Britain's relationship with France proved particularly turbulent, leading to suggestions that its […]

Napoleone in caricatura is the catalogue of the exhibition (external link in Italian) that took place earlier this year (2015) at the Museo Glauco Lombardi in Parma, Italy, with extensive texts are by Francesca Sandrini and Mariachirara Bianchi.  

Napoleon's other Wife is not a biography proper. It begins with Marie-Louise in 1810 preparing for her marriage to Napoleon, nineteen years after Mozart's death (the first entry in the ‘Short Chronology for the life of Marie-Louise) and also Marie-Louise's birth. These first nineteen year are never recounted. The book claims to be a reconstruction […]

From the publishers: In the second half of the nineteenth century, state and municipal governments oversaw the explosive growth of public parks, squares, and gardens throughout the city of Paris. In Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris, Richard S. Hopkins skillfully weaves together social and cultural history to argue that the expansion of these greenspaces served […]

Paris: Les Boulevards (Facsimile) texts (in English) by Pamela Golbin, illustrations by Charles Franck From the publishers: Pulled from the shelf of a rare-book store by collector Neale M. Albert, Paris: Les Boulevards is a true gem that was forgotten for well over a century but will now enchant readers once again in this charming facsimile edition. Paris's romantic […]

From the publishers:“Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush?When Tom Keneally discovered by chance at the National Gallery of Victoria that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while the Emperor Napoleon was […]