The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book
| Author | : Digby Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"Actions and Losses in Personnel, Colours, Standards and Artillery, 1792-1815" -- from cover.
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Charge!
| Author | : Digby Smith |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2007-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1784380008 |
One of the leading voices on national-security issues in the US Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Congressman Israel has included speeches that have motivated and mobilized, challenged and comforted. Some were blurted in the heat of combat, others carefully written in places far removed from the brutality of the battlefield, but all will inspire readers with the courage that moved people forward against all odds. This dramatic sweep of military history in the words of history's military leaders serves to reinforce the concept that the pen is mightier than the sword. Congressman Steve Israel represents New York's second district and is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and former member of the Armed Services Committee.
Napoleon's Regiments
| Author | : Digby Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The best single-volume reference book on the regiments of Napoleon's army, with details of unit organization and history plus biographies of 200 regimental officers.
Decline And Fall Of Napoleon's Empire
| Author | : Digby Smith |
| Publisher | : Frontline Books |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2005-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1853676098 |
Until now, there has been no study of the significant errors that Napoleon made himself which, though apparently trivial at the time, proved to be major factors in his downfall. Digby Smith tracks his rise to power, his stewardship of France from 180415, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes, such as his unwillingness to appoint an effective overall supremo in the Iberian Peninsula, and the decision to invade Russia while the Spanish situation was spiralling out of control.
1813, Leipzig
| Author | : Digby Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : France / Armée |
| ISBN | : 9781853674358 |
A brilliant hour-by-hour account of the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon's Mercenaries
| Author | : Guy Dempsey |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2016-02-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1784380199 |
This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual fate. Colourful accounts, taken from contemporary reports and memoirs, emphasize the qualities of the unit and throw light on what life was like for many of the foreign soldiers recruited into the Grande Armée. In total more than 100 different foreign units that served in the French Army are investigated in detail in this ambitious publication. Some foreign units fought and flourished throughout the Consulate and Empire, whilst others lasted for just a few months. Covers Polish, German, Swiss, Italian, Spanish, and other units in the French Army and presents a combat history and details uniforms for each regiment. Napoleon's Mercenaries is the best single-volume study of this aspect of Napoleon s army and a vital reference for every Napoleonic enthusiast. Little can be found on the foreign units that were an integral part of the French army ... For a long time a gap has existed, but now Napoleon s Mercenaries fills this gap. Robert Burnham, Napoleonic Series
In Napoleon's Shadow
| Author | : Louis-Joseph Marchand |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2018-05-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1784382906 |
In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperors personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mother, attached to the household of the King of Rome as first nurse to the prince, requested this favour for me from the grand chamberlain, the Count de Montesquiou, and it was granted.Louis-Joseph Marchands intimate memoir of his time as Napoleons valet is the last of the significant Napoleonic manuscripts to be translated into English and a unique and precious insight into the last days of Napoleons Imperial project.Serving alongside the Emperor from the apex of his reign and through his eventual demise, Marchand depicts, in remarkable detail, the Russian campaign, the campaigns of Germany and France, Napoleons exile to Elba and subsequent escape, his defeat at Waterloo.Friend and confidante to the leader, Marchand was beside him at the Tuileries during the Hundred Days, and he was present to hear Napoleons last words, France my son the army on the island of St Helena.This sincere and authentic testimony from a man with nothing to hide, nothing to apologise for is both a meticulous historical record and a fresh personal perspective on Napoleon.In this work, Tulard remarks in his preface, the Emperor speaks freely. Listen..Marchand presents the somewhat familiar history of the Emperor's decline as completely new territory through conversations, fond stories and personal encounters'.'Marchand's memoirs, republished in English for the first time in two decades, represent a truly irreplaceable contribution to Napoleonic scholarship. Beyond the Emperor as commander and conqueror, Marchand, from his privileged vantage point, illuminates Napoleon the man in rich and absorbing detail.' - John H Gill
Once There Were Titans
| Author | : Kevin Kiley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2007-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
This is a masterly study of generalship in Napoleons Grande Arme. Napoleon arguably had the greatest collection of military talent to ever serve one man working for him during the period 1800-15. The role of the Marshals of the Empire has been covered many times, and due credit is also given to them here; however, for the first time Kevin Kiley also examines in depth the contribution of the generals who never made that rank. Fifty-two general officers - some well known and some not - are examined using the battles they fought to illustrate just how valuable they were. From Marengo in 1800 to Ligny in 1815, both French victories and defeats are studied in meticulous detail, each chapter covering a battle fought and the generals who commanded them. Diverse source material has been consulted in the preparation of this volume, including after-action reports, memoirs and correspondence from officers including Senarmont, Eble, Drouot, Teste, Marmont, and Davout, as well as from lesser-known characters such as the artillerymen Boulart and Nol, and the Polish cavalryman Niegelewski, who led the final dash up the pass of Somosierra. Furthermore, those closest to Napoleon such as Fain and Marchand give their piece and provide invaluable information. Taken individually, this material paints a vivid picture of the Grande Arme and those who led it into fire. Taken as a whole, it provides an invaluable source and tells the remarkable story of the officers without whom Napoleon could never have achieved as much.
What Nostalgia Was
| Author | : Thomas Dodman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022649294X |
In What Nostalgia Was, historian Thomas Dodman traces the history of clinical "nostalgia" from when it was first coined in 1688 to describe deadly homesickness until the late nineteenth century, when it morphed into the benign yearning for a lost past we are all familiar with today. Dodman explores how people, both doctors and sufferers, understood nostalgia in late seventeenth-century Swiss cantons (where the first cases were reported) to the Napoleonic wars and to the French colonization of North Africa in the latter 1800s. A work of transnational scope over the longue duree, the book is an intellectual biography of a "transient mental illness" that was successively reframed according to prevailing notions of medicine, romanticism, and climatic and racial determinism. At the same time, Dodman adopts an ethnographic sensitivity to understand the everyday experience of living with nostalgia. In so doing, he explains why nostalgia was such a compelling diagnosis for war neuroses and generalized socioemotional disembeddedness at the dawn of the capitalist era and how it can be understood as a powerful bellwether of the psychological effects of living in the modern age.
In the Service of the Tsar Against Napoleon
| Author | : Denis Davydov |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
The only available Russian Napoleonic memoir conveying the victor's perspective on a cataclysmic conflict.
