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Pietro Caporilli’s translation into Italian of Dumas’ Napoléon has recently been republished by Tullio Pironti Editore with a short but illuminating introduction by Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, one of the editors of the Rivista italiana di studi napoleonici issued by the Elba-based Centro Nazionale di Studi Napoleonici. With it pulsing ‘tambour battant’ rhythm, the book is […]

Written by the renowned statesman Henry Kissinger, this work is a case study of the task of constructing a new international order following Napoleon’s defeat in Russia in 1812, which fell particularly on the shoulders of the Austrian foreign minister Prince Metternich and the British foreign secretary Viscount Castlereagh.A World Restored Metternich, Castlereagh and the […]

Published by the small New York press Four Walls Eight Windows and translated by the award-winning literary translator Patricia Clancy, The Black Room at Longwood is at last a chance for anglophone readers to enjoy Kauffmann’s elegiac masterpiece. Retelling as it does the story of Napoleon’s captivity on Saint Helena, the book is also the […]

Napoleon’s lost fleet. Bonaparte, Nelson, and the Battle of the Nile (Foreword by Franck Goddio) A beautiful, glossy illustrated account of the momentous battle, with an appendix consisting of photos of the recent discovery and salvage of the wreckage of the vessels sunk in Aboukir Bay.

A dictionary giving detailed entries on Napoleon’s 26 marshals, their origins, their ranks, careers, honours and decorations, duties and station, etc.

A dictionary giving presentations of the roles of the ministers and the organisation of their ministries, with details on their origins, ranks, careers, honours and rewards, etc.

This book claims to be carefully researched from primary sources – including official documents and surviving uniforms – and contains 91 full colour plates illustrating Napoleon's Guard cavalry units:- the Dragons de l'Impératrice (25 plates)- the Chasseurs à cheval (27 plates)- the Chevau-légers Polonais (25 plates)- the Grenadiers à cheval (13 plates)- plus a picture […]

The Russian Napoleonic web site, The 1812 Project, at http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/English/index.html, has put online its section entitled 'Memorial'. At present there are two articles (with others promised), one on the Vedenskoe cemetery in Moscow and another on a visit this year to the site of the Battle of Borodino. The link is http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/English/memorial/contents.html. The site also […]

Published in 1998 by Einhorn-Presse, ReinbPaperback 230p.ISBN: 3887567838To order the work online from the German version of Amazon http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3887567838/qid%3D954256822/sr%3D1-38/302-7787064-9904052