Publications : 36
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PublicationWellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813
Publisher’s presentation: Bruce Collins’s in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington’s siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington’s army undertook, and it is an important contribution to the history of siege warfare during the Napoleonic Wars. He sets the siege in […]
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PublicationPor Napoleon en España. Los soldados polacos en los Sitios de Zaragoza (1808-1809)
Book in Spanish English translation of publishers’ description: Polish participation in the sieges of Saragossa was forgotten until relatively recently. And despite the upsurge in interest, a full study has never been devoted to the subject. The aim of this book is to show the full extent of involvement of the Polish men of the […]
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PublicationJean-Léon Gérôme and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s
“A crisis in historical representation unfolded in French visual culture in the first half of the nineteenth century, reaching its climax at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855, when artists and critics alike came to a troubling realization: depictions of past heroes that had once held exceptional influence over their viewers now left the public […]
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PublicationNapoléon: Images of the Napoleonic legend
This bilingual French-English catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition at Arras (until November 2018) show-casing the Napoleonic collection from the Château de Versailles. It includes full-colour illustrations of all the artworks, each accompanied by a detailed mini article, as well as thematic articles by Jean Tulard (“The orgins of the Napoleonic Legend: […]
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PublicationFar Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest, 1793-1815
Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. It was a strategy that had been […]
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PublicationWellington’s Brigade Commanders: Peninsula and Waterloo
Publisher’s note: Recent research into the Duke of Wellington’s armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide to his brigade commanders is a valuable contribution to this growing field. Ron McGuigan and Robert Burnham have investigated the lives and careers […]
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PublicationThe Forgotten war against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean
Publisher’s note: The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analysed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theatre of the conflict. Gareth Glover sets this […]
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PublicationNelson’s right hand Man: The life and times of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle
From the Publishers: “This is the story of Thomas Fremantle, one of Britain’s greatest naval captains and Lord Nelson’s closest friend and ally. The two, bound in friendship, were part of a Navy that ensured Napoleon could never invade Britain. The naval campaign culminated in the great victory at Trafalgar and, with the fleet in […]
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PublicationMan of War: The fighting life of Admiral James Saumarez: from the American Revolution to the defeat of Napoleon
From the Publishers: “The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolutionaries in 1775, but thereafter his main opponents were the French and the Spanish, and the first fighting ship he commanded, the eight-gun galley Spitfire, was involved in forty-seven […]
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PublicationGodoy’s Army: Spanish Regiments and Uniforms from the Estado Militar of 1800 (From Reason to Revolution)
Publisher’s note: Based on an extremely rare (albeit slightly incomplete) illustrated version of the Spanish Army’s order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uniforms (or, more specifically, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era). Almost every regiment […]