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Author : Hubert Cole
Publisher : London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fouché: the Unprincipled Patriot written by Hubert Cole and published by London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495456
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Orchid Affair written by Lauren Willig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges closer to her employer, she is surprised to learn that she has much in common with him. And Jaouen finds he's hired more than he's bargained for...
Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351910582
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Police Detectives in History, 1750–1950 written by Clive Emsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police in general. The collection redresses this imbalance. Investigating themes central to the history of detection, such as the inchoate distinction between criminals and detectives, the professionalisation of detective work and the establishment of colonial police forces, the book provides a the first detailed examination of detectives as an occupational group, with a distinct occupational culture. Essays discuss the complex relationship between official and private law enforcers and examine the ways in which the FBI in the U.S.A. and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany operated as instruments of state power. The dynamic interaction between the fictional and the real life image of the detective is also explored. Expanding on themes and approaches introduced in recent academic research of police history, the comparative studies included in this collection provide new insights into the development of both plain-clothes policing and law enforcement in general, illuminating the historical importance of bureaucratic and administrative changes that occurred within the state system.
Author : Cyrille J.C.F. Fijnaut
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004281940
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Containment of Organised Crime and Terrorism written by Cyrille J.C.F. Fijnaut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume collects articles and contributions to edited books published throughout his distinguished career by Professor Cyrille Fijnaut, one of the world's leading experts in the fields of organised crime, security and criminology. It makes clear what issues the author systematically explored over the years and how he helped to shape the fields in which he has worked, and continues to work. The texts, reflecting the author's profound understanding of these complex fields and wealth of experience on a practical level, are presented according to topic. In addition, the volume offers English translations of seminal articles published originally in Dutch, thus making these important texts accessible to international scholars for the first time. The volume thus constitutes a unique and indispensable resource for scholars and practitioners, inside and outside the Netherlands.
Author : John H. Gill
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783830719
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs written by John H. Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon’s last great victory. On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon’s last victorious war. Even then, the margin of French superiority was decreasing. Archduke Charles, the best of the Habsburg commanders, led a reformed Austrian Army that was arguably the best ever fielded by the Danubian Monarchy. Though caught off guard, the French Emperor reversed a dire strategic situation with stunning blows that he called his 'most brilliant and most skillful maneuvers'. Following a breathless pursuit down the Danube valley, Napoleon occupied the palaces of the Habsburgs for the second time in four years. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe's great powers lie broken at his feet. In Thunder on the Danube, historian John H. Gill tackles the political background of the war, including the motivations behind the Austrian offensive. Gill also demonstrates that 1809 was both a high point of the First Empire as well as a watershed, for Napoleon's armies were declining in quality and he was beginning to display the corrosive flaws that contributed to his downfall five years later. His opponents, on the other hand, were improving.
Author : Philip G. Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881834
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Talleyrand written by Philip G. Dwyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand’s remarkable career through one of the most turbulent periods of French and European history continue to fascinate. Witty and wiley, cynical and charming, Talleyrand has been portrayed as a cynical opportunist, hypocrite, and traitor who betrayed governments whenever he had a chance to do so. Yet as the representative of France and advocate of peace at the Congress of Vienna, he has also been cast as the saviour of Europe. Philip Dwyer offers a detached, more nuanced analysis of the role of Talleyrand in the corridors of power over five different French regimes. He presents Talleyrand as a pragmatist, a member of the French political elite, mediating between various political interests and ideological tendencies to produce a working compromise, rather than actively seeking the overthrow of governments. His ability to weather the tectonic shifts in French and European politics of the time, and to successfully attach himself to the prevalent political trend, ensured that his role as French statesman was long and productive.
Author : Paul W. Schroeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198206545
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 written by Paul W. Schroeder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only modern study of European international politics to cover the entire timespan from the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 to the revolutionary year of 1848.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773895X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Eagle in Splendour written by Philip Mansel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was through the splendour of his court - a world fashioned beyond the battlefield - that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers, and his second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the intoxicated world of a court 'devoured by ambition' as Stendhal called it : its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy; mistresses, artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that conquered half the world yet, in the end, was abandoned by his dynasty and his courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and ignominious exile.
Author : Carlos de la Huerta
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445659492
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Great Conspiracy written by Carlos de la Huerta and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the underground war waged between Britain and Revolutionary France
Author : Ronald T. Ridley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401913
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Eagle and the Spade written by Ronald T. Ridley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of an almost completely neglected archaeological epic, the uncovering and restoration of all the classical monuments of Rome during the French occupation (1809-14). This was the first large-scale archaeological programme in the city. Based on archives in Rome and Paris, the archaeology of these five years is placed against its essential background: the fate of the monuments since antiquity and the contemporary Napoleonic political and cultural history. Mr Ridley describes the enormously complicated organisation which carried out the work and identifies the leading administrators, archaeologists and architects. The bulk of the work is a detailed account of the excavation and restoration work on the Forum Romanum, the Colosseum and the Forum of Trajan, the main classical monuments. There are numerous illustrations of the monuments both before and after the French intervention, as well as unpublished plans from the archives. There is an extensive specialist index. The book is intended for anyone interested in archaeology, in Napoleonic Europe and above all, in Rome.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576074579
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Napoleon written by David Nicholls and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated A–Z encyclopedia provides easy access to information about the emperor Napoleon. Over 300 entries cover significant events, people, and other topics such as the principal Napoleonic campaigns, all the major battles including Waterloo and Austerlitz, Napoleon's most important generals and marshals, Josephine de Beauharnais, and the Napoleonic Code. Napoleon also includes primary source documents, a handy chronology of key events, a bibliography, and an index.
Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473816211
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Marengo & Hohenlinden written by James R. Arnold and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A good overview of the forces, their tactics, mistakes (and lies in official reports)” of the two pivotal campaigns that cemented Napoleon’s dictatorship (Paper Wars). In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that France would accept his rule only if he gained military victories that brought peace. James Arnold, in this detailed and compelling account, describes the extraordinary campaigns that followed. At Marengo, Bonaparte defeated the Austrians and his fellow general Jean Moreau beat the combined Austrian and Bavarian armies at Hohenlinden. These twin campaigns proved decisive. Bonaparte’s dictatorship was secure and his enemies across Europe were forced in a 15-year struggle to overthrow him.
Author : Alan Forrest
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250018153
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Napoleon written by Alan Forrest and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead emperor's corpse from the island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile. In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own. Along the way, Forrest also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Napoleon, a man who mixed history and legend promiscuously. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator.
Author : George F. Nafziger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086617X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era written by George F. Nafziger and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author covers one of the most explosive and most exciting periods of world history, spanning the time from the eruption of the French Revolution through the end of the Napoleonic wars (1789-1815). These twenty-six years of history saw the birth of nationalism and Western democracy, economic crisis and political convulsion, the growth of industrialism, the death of ancient traditions, and the birth and break-up of empire. It was the time of Napoleon, who gave his name to this period of tremendous change: the period in which the roots of modern Europe were planted. This work is intended as a broad review, devoting a majority of its attention to the military and political events and personalities of the period, while also surveying the major artistic, social and cultural events and personalities that formed this period.
Author : Matthew J. Flynn
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597975834
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Washington & Napoleon written by Matthew J. Flynn and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two political and military giants compared
Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231051040
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet written by Gilbert Highet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Gulland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743213599
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Last Great Dance on Earth written by Sandra Gulland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been married for four tumultuous years. Napoleon is Josephine's great love, and she his. But their passionate union is troubled from within, as Josephine is unable to produce an heir, and from without, as England makes war against France and Napoleon's Corsican clan makes war against his wife. Through Josephine's heartfelt diary entries, we witness the personal betrayals and political intrigues that will finally drive them apart, culminating in Josephine's greatest tragedy: her divorce from Napoleon and his exile to Elba. The Last Great Dance on Earth is historical fiction on a grand scale and the stirring conclusion to an unforgettable love story.
