152円 "A reporter's eye on great historical events "Readers may be of the initial opinion that the view of an officer of the Commissariat Department would be necessarily less dynamic than that of a regimental officer. In fact, Daniel's position as a non-combatant has proved to be the exact opposite and...

152円 In 1805, a new style of operational warfare burst upon the fields of Europe as Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Army swept from the Rhine to the Danube surrounding the Austrian army at Ulm and initiating a revolution in military affairs (RMA) whose effects are still felt today. The question remains whe...

150円 Adelbert DeVillargennes joined the French Navy in 1807 as an apprentice and managed to climb to the post of Midshipman but transferred to the ranks of the Grande Armée. He fought as a lieutenant in Austria, although wounded he returned to active service in Spain where he was captured by the Briti...

150円 NUMEROUS excellent works descriptive of Wellington's military exploits have been given to the public, and the inquirer who seeks information on any particular phase of his career need be at no loss for ample materials on which to ground an opinion. But it is scarcely possible that works which aff...

299円 La Question brûlante - Maurice Joly Maurice Joly (1829 - 1878) est un avocat du barreau de Paris, journaliste et écrivain français. Il fait des études de droit qu'il interrompt en 1849 pour aller à Paris. Il travaille au ministère d'État pendant dix ans et obtient le diplôme d'avocat. En 1864, la...

253円 As a 16-year old schoolboy from a Parisian banlieu, Jean-Pierre Duteuil became politicised in 1960 over France’s bitter and bloody Algerian war of independence. Already an anarchist, he studied at the University of Nanterre from 1964 to 1969, majoring in Sociology. While a student he was part of ...

299円 Louis XVII en Champagne (D’après les documents originaux) - Georges Herelle Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Georges Hérelle (1848 - 1935) est un traducteur, ethnographe, érudit historien et professeur d...

2,750円 Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a hu...

267円 Tu as inséré dans ton journal, n°. 233, que la cupidité jointe à l’envie de faire du bruit, m’avoit fait débuter dans la révolution par un faux ; que j’avais profité de la nouvelle de l’assasinat de Jacques Roux, curé, d’Issy, pour usurper son nom, et cacher le mien qui étoit diffamé. Voilà ma ré...

267円 Le mot Anarchie signifie négation de l’autorité. - L’Anarchie implique donc l’abolition de toute contrainte et partant de toute loi imposée au nom d’un principe, d’une tradition ou d’un intérêt. En effet, que des hommes, au nom de l’intérêt d’une caste, imposent un code, qu’ils se réclament d’une...

377円 Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war h...

150円 The French Army corps during the Napoleonic era was a combined arms organization, designed as a self-sustaining combat unit which could operate independently from the rest of the army. One corps was designated as the advanced guard to the French army's main body and acted as the unit which would ...