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PublicationThe Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806
Books to read over the summer 2001
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PublicationThe Napoleonic wars 1803-1815
This recent work covers the causes and effects of the conflicts and their place in the evolution of modern warfare. It explores and reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon’s campaigns of 1805-9, and demonstrates, in interspersed thematic sections, how incomplete our understanding of the struggle must […]
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PublicationEngineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
Reviewed by Alan Forrest of the University of York (UK) in the British periodical French History, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1998.
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PublicationMy Napoleon
The arrival of an important prisoner forever changes the lives of the residents of the island of St. Helena. Napoleon, after his defeat at Waterloo, came to live in the family house of a young English girl on the island, and this novel for children gives a view of the great man, his life and […]
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PublicationL’Histoire, n° 214
Some periods in the life of the Prince impérial His childhood, his place within Imperial propaganda, the fall of the Third Empire, the exile in England, and the departure for, and death in, South Africa.
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PublicationHistoria, n° 610
Vivant Denon: a soldier/painter in the land of the Pharaohs Vivant Denon followed Bonapart on the Egyptian campaign and brought back some exceptional documents which sparked off a craze on all things Egyptian, known as ‘egyptomanie’. It was during this campaign that the Rosetta Stone was found by the French – it was not however […]
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PublicationFrench Railways of the XIXth century: Histoire des chemins de fer en France. Tome 1: 1740-1883
Railways, the product of the development of roads and canals in the XVIIIth century and the industrial revolution, were adopted by the French in the 1840's, with the large railway companies being founded in the 1850's. The driving spirit of liberalism of the Second Empire was broken on the wheel of the IIIrd Republic, as […]
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PublicationCitoyens Officiers de Napoléon Derval – Trusty companions of Napoleon Ist
A book which tells the story of the military careers of a handful of officers; humble citizens ennobled by the great epic of the history of the First Empire.
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Press reviewArticles in French journals October 1997
Jean-Paul Laurens, official painter of IIIrd RepublicLaurens, very much the official painter to the IIIrd Republic, took certain episodes from the history of the First and Second Empires so as to defend and highlight republican values.L'Histoire, n° 214, octobre 1997, Pierre Vaisse, p.13-15Some periods in the life of the Prince impérial His childhood, his place […]
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Press reviewRussian military history
Mark Conrad has put online a selection of translations relating to Russian military history. Of particular interest to the Napoleonic enthusiast are: Historical notes on the Orenburg Cossack host On entering military service under Alexander I Don Cossack, Opolcheni, 1812 Crimean Tartar patriotism Lt Gen. Raevskii's report of the Battle of Borodino, and Markov's Horse […]