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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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PublicationMarengo 1800: Napoleon’s greatest gamble
A detailed analysis of the Battle of Marengo. This book can be bought online here http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1855329654/qid%3D962207785/sr%3D1-1/026-5502172-6009235
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PublicationNew Publications on the Battle of Marengo
Recently published by Rizzoli in honour of the 200th aniversary of the Battle of Marengo, Marengo: la battaglia che creò il mito di Napoleone by Marco Gioannini and Giulio Massobrio is an excellent book, combining a racy novelistic style with careful historical accuracy, including the most complete and up-to-date bibliography on the battle and on […]
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PublicationBook on Thibaudeau, “the last survivor of the Convention”
Lawyer in the last years of the Ancien Régime, Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau (1765-1854) took part in the creation of the Club des Jacobins and was elected to the Convention where he was particularly active (Président of the Assemblée in 1795, member of the commission charged with drawing up the Constitution de l’An III). The Coup d’Etat […]
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PublicationStudy of the revolution of 1848 and public opinion in the South of France
Reactions to the Revolution of 1848, and later the Coup d’Etat of 1851, in a strongly republican region.De la Révolution au coup d’Etat, 1848-1851: les répercussions des événements parisiens entre Alpes et Pyrénées: colloque de Montpellier, 18-19 septembre 1999
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PublicationBook on the sale of French national property 1790-1867
Analysis over an enormous greographical and chronological spread of the sale of national property and the fiscal reorganisation of the regions in France, Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, for the most part during the Revolution and the EmpireLa vente des biens nationaux: l’événement le plus important de la Révolution, 1790-1867