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PublicationSalamanca
Rory Muir, author of the recent work Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon (also published by Yale UP), has written a very detailed account of the Battle of Salamanca, much in the style of the previous book, relying heavily on memoirs of participating soldiers and British as well as French […]
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PublicationWith Napoleon in Russia
This large-format volume contains the memoirs (translated and edited by Jonathan North) and illustrations (93 colour plates and 35 sketches in colour and b/w) by the artist/frontline soldier, Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur, depicting in all its ghastly detail the terrible Russian campaign of 1812.Selections from the book and a biography of Faber du […]
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PublicationThe man who broke Napoleon’s codes
The story of the completely unknown Major George Scovell and his important work in cracking the codes used by the French in the Peninsula war. The author, Mark Urban, is the Diplomatic editor of the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight.
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PublicationLes Bonaparte en Corse
A very useful addition to the Napoleon enthusiast's library, this short book unravels in extraordinary detail the different parts of the Bonaparte family in Corsica. In French. Includes 4 genealogical tables.
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PublicationNapoleon and Wellington
Author of biographies of the Earl of Halifax (1991) and Salisbury (1999) and journalist for The Spectator and The Literary Review, Andrew Roberts has written a detailed interpretation of the relationship between the two great generals.Napoleon and Wellington.
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PublicationThe gospel according to Jefferson
Encouraged by his political rival John Adams and working in the White House in 1804, Jefferson set about editing the gospels in an attempt to reveal the kernel of true religion in story of the life of Jesus. The president was convinced that the authentic message of Jesus could be found only by extracting from […]
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PublicationParis Between Empires: 1814-1852
Mansel paints a vivid picture of Paris between the two Empires (1814 and 1852), and he sets it as the stage on which the great conflicts of the age – nationalism versus cosmopolitanism, Revolution versus Royalism, socialism versus capitalism, atheism versus Catholicism – were played out. For Mansel, the “Paris Between Empires” was a golden […]
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PublicationNapoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler
This new biography published by Harper Collins is the first on Napoleon III for twenty years, the last being by David Duff (Collins 1978) and Jasper Ridley (1979). Billed as a ‘popular historical biography in the mould of Christopher Hibbert and Antonia Fraser’, the author claims to bring to light new research and gives a […]
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Publication1799 – Le Baionette sagge – La campagna del maresciallo Suvorov in Italia e la "Prima Restaurazione" in Lombardia
This volume, entitled '1799 – Wise bayonets – Marshal Suvorov's Italian campaign and the “First Restoration” in Lombardy', by Marco Galandra and Marco Baratto (which derives its title from Suvorov's famous remark 'the bullet is wild, the bayonet is wise') deals with Suvorov's successful campaign against the French troops in northern Italy between April and […]
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PublicationIn the Legions of Napoleon -The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813
Heinrich von Brandt was eighteen when he enlisted in the French Army, and in 1808 he was sent to Spain as an officer in Napoleon's Grande Armee. Amongst many other battles, Heinrich fought at the siege of Saragossa and took part in Russian campaign – from which only 60 of Brandt's regiment were to return. […]