In December 1807 Tsar Alexander I personally granted a commission in the hussars to a young cavalryman who had shown exceptional valor in the summer's campaign against the French. The Tsar knew, and some fellow officers soon guessed, that this brave soldier was a woman.
Grunt's-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front'the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter …
The only known memoir by a draftee of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.
The Friends of Peace is a study of the war-opposition in England during what has usually been presented as the great patriotic struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Protest against the wars was led by liberal writers, professionals and businessmen. Dr Cookson arg…
The Napoleonic Wars: a very short introduction
In this biography of the successor to the swashbuckling hero d'Artagnan of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Chrisawn (history, Tallahassee Community College) chronicles the military and amorous exploits of Jean Lannes. Born the same year (1769) as Napoleon, his future commander-in-c…
In this biography of the successor to the swashbuckling hero d'Artagnan of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Chrisawn (history, Tallahassee Community College) chronicles the military and amorous exploits of Jean Lannes. Born the same year (1769) as Napoleon, his future commander-in-c…
A new look at Napoleon's campaign across the Iberian Peninsula. Peopled with some of history's greatest figures, including Wellington and Napoleon, this is great history written on an epic scale.
In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna. The Vienna Congress marked one of the great turning points in diplomatic history; the first attempt to create an 'international order' to sec…
The Vienna Congress marked one of the turning points in diplomatic history - an attempt to create an 'international order' to secure peace for the 19th century. Mark Jarrett argues that the Congress in fact marked the beginning of the end for the Ancien Regime, and has had an en…
In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna. The Vienna Congress marked one of the great turning points in diplomatic history; the first attempt to create an 'international order' to sec…
