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From Jacobin to Liberal
Princeton University Press 1993; US$ 32.50For this book R. R. Palmer has translated selections from the abundant writings of the versatile French political figure and writer Marc-Antoine Jullien, weaving them together with his own extensive commentary into an absorbing narrative of Jullien's life and times. Jullien's hopes and fears for the "progress of humanity" were typical of many of the... more...
The Satiric Decade
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 74.99The Satiric Decade analyzes the impact on republicanism of French political satire in newspapers, theaters, street behavior, and even the academy in the 1830s. Author Amy Wiese Forbes argues that satire gave rise to the critical spirit and republicanism that erupted in the 1848 Revolution and that propelled the process by which France evolved... more...
Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 50.00This study is crucial to the socio-political history of France from 17891830. more...
Napoleon's Red Lancers
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95The legendary Dutch 'Red' Lancers ? the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard ? were formed in 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France. The former hussars of the Dutch Royal Guard got a handsome new uniform, a new weapon, and a hard-driving new colonel in Baron Edouard Colbert.... more...
Journals of Sieges Carried On by The Army under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, during the Years 1811 to 1814 - Volume I
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 23.49The classic, immensely detailed description of the many sieges of the long drawn-out war that was Britains major land contribution to the defeat of Napoleon. Sir John Jones was an officer of the Royal Engineers with Wellington in Portugal and Spain and intimately connected with the operations he describes so exactly. Sir John originally wrote... more...
French Soldier in Egypt 1798-1801
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95This book concentrates on the dramatic experiences of Napoleon's Army of the Orient in Egypt and the Holy Land. The fighting of the Mamelukes and Turks are covered in depth, detailing desert combat, siege warfare, cavalry skirmishes and the suppression of uprisings. It examines the French treatment of prisoners as well as the fate of captured Frenchmen,... more...
The Amiens Truce
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 99.00A study of the hardening of British public opinion against Bonaparte and an examination of the events that caused it. more...
Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809-14
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95This highly detailed study provides a clear account of how the British Army was organised, who commanded it, and how it functioned in the field during the Peninsular War. Focusing principally on infantry, cavalry and artillery, including foreign units in British pay, it provides a detailed and comprehensive order of battle. Doctrine, training, tactics... more...
The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95In 1814-1815, after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of the most important countries in Europe gathered together to redraw the frontiers of their continent. The Congress of Vienna explores the attempt by Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia to agree Europe's new frontiers after almost twenty years of continuous fighting against... more...
British Victory in Egypt, 1801
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00In 1800 the British Army was the laughing-stock of Europe. A year later, after forty years of failure, its honour and reputation had been redeemed. British Victory in Egypt, 1801 recounts and analyses the story of the expeditionary force that ejected Bonaparte's crack troops from Egypt. Piers Mackesy shows how the future of the British Empire depended... more...









