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Free Download James Gregory, "Napoleon in British Culture: c. 1815 – 1840"
English | ISBN: 1350422940 | 2025 | 308 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his remains to France in 1840. Adopting a chronological approach, James Gregory studies the British use of Bonaparte in various spheres – covering political, dramatic, literary, and visual culture, and popular entertainment over a 25-year period. Gregory acknowledges not only canonical literary treatments, but also appearances of the figure in novels, anecdotes, travelling shows, and private collections – in order to analyse contemporary fascination with Napoleon. Centring on key themes such as responses to Napoleon’s presence on British territory, and later reactions to his death, Gregory also takes into account the influence of factors such as geography and gender, in order to craft a comprehensive picture of cultural engagement with Napoleon in the period 1815-40. Covering factors including the role of commemoration, the impact of Peterloo and Queen Caroline’s death, and the rise of Romanticism, this book demonstrates how truly pervasive the myth of Napoleon became in 19th-century Britain.

Free Download The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939: Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz by Steven Mark Lowenstein, David N. Myers, Michael Berenbaum
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 888719108I | 764 pages | MOBI | 67 Mb
AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable Mention

Free Download Germany and the World since 1815: Society, Culture, and Politics by Thomas Adam
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 323 Pages | ISBN : 303163389X | 7.2 MB
This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country’s social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context. The author argues that most developments in German culture, society, and politics throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were caused by wider global and transnational trends. A history of the German people rather than the German state, the book focusses on non-state and non-government actors, intercultural transfers, and applies the approach of ‘thick description’ to analysing the creation of German culture, society, and identity from the era of the Napoleonic wars right up to the present post-unification Germany. This includes an examination of German migrants’ journeys to their new homes in the Americas and, thus, the creation of a global German diaspora with cultural and social networks beyond its home country’s borders. The book further focusses on the transfers that connected German society and culture with those of other countries; for instance, chapters cover the transfer of football from England to Germany, the transfer of the Christmas holiday tradition from Germany to other countries, and the development of eugenics in Germany within its global context.

Free Download The Royal Navy 1793-1815 (Battle Orders, 31) by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
English | December 18, 2007 | ISBN: 9781846031380 | 96 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas owing to the power and strength of the Royal Navy. Its fleets, comprising ships of the line, frigates, and gunboats, had doubled in size since the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, totaling almost a thousand capital vessels.

Free Download The British Army, 1783-1815 (Pen and Sword History of the British Army) by Kevin Linch
English | April 14, 2024 | ISBN: 152673799X | 240 pages | MOBI | 9.50 Mb
The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this carefully considered new study by Kevin Linch is of such value. He brings together fresh perspectives on the army in one of its most tumultuous – and famous – eras, exploring the global range of its deployment, the varieties of soldiering it had to undertake, its close ties to the political and social situation of the time, and its complex relationship with British society and culture.

Free Download Die Schlacht: Waterloo 1815
Deutsch | 2019 | ISBN: 3534272307 | 256 Seiten | EPUB (True) | 5 MB
Napoleon schlug in Waterloo sein letztes Gefecht, das bis heute als die wohl berühmteste Schlacht der Weltgeschichte in Erinnerung blieb. Waterloo ist DAS Synonym für den zweiten Griff nach den Sternen ebenso wie für das finale Scheitern. Trotz seiner erzwungenen Abdankung im Vorjahr und dem Exil in Elba wollte es der Ex-Kaiser noch einmal wissen: Zwei Tage nach den Schlachten von Ligny und Quatre Bras standen sich am 18. Juni 1815, einem Sonntag, etwa 15 Kilometer südlich von Brüssel, nahe der kleinen Ortschaft Mont St. Jean, erneut 180.000 deutsche, niederländische, englische und französische Soldaten gegenüber. Der Militärhistoriker Klaus-Jürgen Bremm schildert die dramatische Vorgeschichte dieses Feldzuges und seine Etappen. Er analysiert das Schlachtgeschehen des Tages detailliert, porträtiert die Akteure, die Armeen und untersucht die Bewaffnung der Soldaten. Und er beschreibt Nachleben und Rezeption wie auch die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, Kriegsgeschehnisse der Vergangenheit zu rekonstruieren. Eindrucksvoll geschildert entsteht so ein Porträt der Schlacht mit all ihren Facetten.

Free Download Auto Express – Issue 1815 – 24 January 2024
English | 118 pages | True PDF | 71.5 MB

Free Download The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939
by Steven Mark Lowenstein
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0BQLLMHH7 | 764 Pages | True ePUB | 69 MB

Free Download Brian Delf, "British Napoleonic Artillery 1793-1815 (2): Siege and Coastal Artillery"
English | 2003 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841764779 | PDF | 11,3 mb
Following on from the first volume covering British Napoleonic Artillery, this volume concentrates on the heavy weapons of siege and coastal defences. This book covers the main equipments used; the 24 pounder siege gun and a variety of mortars. Mortars varied from 4- or 5-inch versions up to a13 inch calibre and were considered to be extremely effective because they used an exploding shell to destroy fortifications or personnel. Also covered in detail is the specialist bomb vessel, which was used to attack fortifications in a similar fashion; siege techniques; and the tactical use of siege and coastal artillery.

Free Download Brian Delf, "Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792-1815"
English | 2003 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 184176499X | PDF | 12,6 mb
The Austrian artillery of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was a creation of the renowned Lichtenstein system of the early 1750s. This weight system produced a series of weapons of 3-, 6- and 12-pdr. calibre along with 7- and 10-pdr. howitzers. In the 1780s they were joined by Cavalry artillery guns with their Wurst seats. In 1811 Austria also began the establishment of rocket troops based upon the British invention, whilst their heavy and siege pieces remained the 12 -,18- and 24-pdrs throughout the period. This book describes the system as well as its operational use during the Napoleonic Wars.