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Drawing on English, Chinese and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military. It concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.

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Presents a study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. This anthology examines the relationships between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along racial lines.

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This revisionist history offers a fresh analysis of Napoleon and the French army as they defended their empire against the massive Coalition invasion of 1814.

French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable factors.

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Tells the story of Napoleon and his crucial relationship with Russia, from the 1790s and Bonaparte's rise to power, through the period of Austerlitz, Tilsit and the Russian invasion, to the Emperor's fall and its aftermath.

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This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements.

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Examines Napoleon as a strategist; as a coalition commander; Napoleon's campaigns and Napoleon on the battlefield. This book also looks at areas often ignored in the context of pre-industrial warfare - logistics and counter-insurgency.

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In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets, the Opera House and other well-known buildings, as

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In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets, the Opera House and other well-known buildings, as

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Poised to strike at England in the summer of 1805, Napoleon found himself facing a coalition of European powers determined to limit his territorial ambitions.

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A first-hand account of the disastrous 1812 campaign

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After the Russian campaign in 1812, Napoleon was desperate to form a new army to resist the Allied offensive in Germany. Short of cavalry, he levied four regiments of "Guards of Honour". This title details their history, organization and uniforms in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814.

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Napoleon, as a young artilleryman, was trained with the Gribeauval system, created to standardize the French field artillery. This work deals with 4-, 8- and 12-pdr guns, light 1-pdr guns and later innovations such as the 6-pdr gun, which were used by Napoleon in Italy, Germany and Austria.

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This volume is the second half of the story of French artillery during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It covers the howitzers, mortars and large siege and garrison guns, placing a special emphasis on their role, technical significance and operational use.

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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Italy for 23 years. In that time, no fewer than eight campaigns were mounted in the Italian peninsula, as France and Austria struggled over this important theatre of war. This work places these campaigns into their proper historical perspective.

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The Restoration has been regarded by historians as a period in which European governments returned to the reactionary policies which prevailed before the upheavals of 1789. This text challenges this interpretation and argues that surprising loyalty to Napoleonic policies was sometimes shown.

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The Restoration has been regarded by historians as a period in which European governments returned to the reactionary policies which prevailed before the upheavals of 1789. This text challenges this interpretation and argues that surprising loyalty to Napoleonic policies was sometimes shown.

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During the Napoleonic Wars the supreme battlefield shock weapon was the heavy cavalry - the French cuirassiers, and their British, Austrian, Prussian and Russian counterparts. This title is a two-part study of the cavalry tactics of the armies of Napoleon and those of his allies and opponents.

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During the Napoleonic Wars all the major combatants fielded large numbers of light cavalry. In practice, light cavalry were often also employed for battlefield charges alongside the heavy cavalry. This book presents the study of the cavalry tactics of the armies of Napoleon and those of his allies and opponents.