Publications : 22
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PublicationFavourite of Fortune: Captain John Quilliam, Trafalgar Hero
Publisher’s presentation: The Royal Navy of Nelson’s time was not short of heroes, nor of outstanding achievements, but even in this crowded field the career of Captain John Quilliam stands out – so often the right man in the right place at the right time, he was justly described by a contemporary as ‘the favourite of […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Run: An epic naval adventure of espionage and actionThe first novel in the William John Hazzard trilogy. The second tome: Lords of the Nile is published in 2021.
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PublicationCoastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras
Publisher’s presentation: Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned colour photographs, it includes not only […]
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PublicationA Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth CenturyAfter the cataclysm of 1815, France was a diminished world player but it still managed to wield influence, so maintains David Todd, senior lecturer in World History at King’s College London. Not through settler colonialism or acquisition of territory, he claims, but rather through seduction,…
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Publication« Le plus puissant souffle de vie… ». La mort de Napoléon (1821-2021) [proceedings of the Symposium on the Death of Napoleon]“The mightiest breath of life which ever animated human clay” (Chateaubriand) In this publication before the hour, of the proceedings of the symposium on the death of Napoleon (planned for autumn 2021) read the greatest current specialists on the Emperor’s death, sweeping away preconceived or…
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PublicationNapoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows
Publisher’s presentation: A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. Napoleon’s gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, […]
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PublicationÉcrits clandestins de Sainte-HélèneIn 1817 and 1818, Napoleon published three works in London in order to mobilise public opinion for his return to Europe, a return he believed in until March 1819, when he learned of the fateful decision of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (29 Sept.-21 Nov. 1818)…
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PublicationNapoléon n’est plus [Napoleon is no more, exhibition catalogue]In French More than a catalogue, it’s one more stone added to the building of knowledge! This book, which accompanies the eponymous exhibition at the Musée de l’Armée, co-organised with the Fondation Napoléon, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I…
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PublicationCahiers de Sainte-Hélène. Les 500 derniers jours (1820-1821)Book in French General Bertrand began his account of the time he spent on St Helena as a personal diary by means of cryptic notes. But as he gradually became aware that his Cahiers were a key witness to the events in question, especially as…
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PublicationMystères de Paris [Mysteries of Paris]Every fan of Paris must have this entertaining work with its fluid and poetic writing, to savour as he or she wishes to discover the little-known histories of the city. We highly recommended slipping it into one’s pocket in anticipation of a stroll (whether real…