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PublicationMilitary Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia: The March on Moscow – Napoleon in Moscow – The Great Retreat
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationNapoleon 1813
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationNapoleon’s Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815.
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationWellington in India
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationMost secret and confidential – intelligence in the age of Nelson
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationDie Geschichte der Zerstöring Moskaus im Jahre 1812 (The history of the destruction of Moscow, 1812)
According to the Bulletin de la Grande Armée, no. 20, 17 September, 1812, the governor of the city of Moscow, count Feodor Vassilievich Rostopchin, gave the order for three to four hundred brigands to set fire to the city. In the subsequent fire that raged, almost three-quarters of the old wooden city of Moscow was […]
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PublicationNot just a list of battles: a reconsideration of military history
This book edited by Thomas Khüne (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Benjamin Ziemann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), comprising essays by 19 academics, attempts to answer the question ‘What is military history? Was ist Militärgischichte, Ferdinand Schöningh
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PublicationJacques Macé returns honour to Charles de Montholon
Retired aeronautical engineer become historian, Jacques Macé has written a book on the much-maligned Charles de Montholon. Whilst accepting that the general was no saint, he nevertheless manages to give a more balanced description than that presented by other authors. Macé not only brings to light Albine de Montholon’s emotionally-charged Chant de Moïne (published anonymously […]
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PublicationHistoire du Consulat et de l’Empire
Jacques-Olivier Boudon’s latest book.University professor, disciple of Jean Tulard, and Tulard’s successor as president of the Institut Napoléon, Jacques-Olivier Boudon has written a Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire, published by Perrin. Five hundred pages of useful, precise and where necessary passionate commentary on the 15 years of the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte. (Th. L.) […]
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Publication‘The First World War’?
Napoleon 1813 by Hezi ShelahThis book tells the story of a crucial year in Napoleon’s life, 1813. Hezi Shelah’s theory is that the characteristics of the military campaigns of 1813 were so different from previous wars that 1813 in fact witnessed, in effect, the first world war. Born in Israel in 1934, Hezi Shelah served […]