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Napoleon and his Guard has been reprinted after more than 35 years. The glory of the Imperial Guard resounds above all others in the annals of war. This is a new printing of this critically acclaimed publication with a new introduction by Col. John R. Elting. Perhaps it is less an anatomy than epic or […]

Napoleon contributes to the Profiles in Power series with a book described by the general editor of the series as “not a standard biography, or indeed a narrative account at all, but a thematic reappraisal of Napoleon's life and career” touching on personality, politics, imperialism, and the “very process of history-making itself.” Ellis is particularly […]

A History of Leisure Travel takes us on a wonderful journey through other people’s travels undertaken between 1750 and 1915. The maps and motivations of these trips, intriguing in themselves, also guide us to the political circumstances that limited or defined travel in the given period. Traveling for fun was interrupted during the Napoleonic Wars; […]

A Personal History is a new work by the famous British historian on his heroic subject that includes a biography of the young Wellesley and a deeply knowledgeable and readable account of Wellington's habits. The small but important details of his life and how he conducted it give shape to this mythic figure,and in particular, his […]

Heine's Last Years in Paris is a posthumously published biography of Heinrich Heine that takes us into the last years of this German Romantic poet and into Paris between 1847 and 1856. Haussmann and the rise of Louis Napoleon figure in selections of his poetry, craftily and with humour. We are amazed by Heine's capacity […]

Henry Beyle, Napoleon's messenger, passed from passionate enthousiasm for Napoleon to deep desillusion, only to meet his destiny as a writer amidst the cannons and the slaughter. Nicolas Boussard teaches philosophy at the University of Tours and is at present working on Stendhal's political philosophy.

Jean-Paul Delbert takes us on Milhaud's epic Napoleonic journey with all its deeds of valour and glory.

This work tells the story of the remarkable meeting between between a young generation of soldiers and the intellectuals marked by the revolution, as well as the story of one of the representative peoples of Islam.

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 […]

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 […]