Our apologies folks. Unfortunately David has had to take an unscheduled trip out of town for a few weeks and it has meant delaying the next show. The Pyramids will have to wait another couple of weeks. Until then, I discovered this site tonight which I thought I’d share with you: The Napoleon Series Military [...]

David was interviewed recently by The Observer newspaper in the UK about the upcoming films on Napoleon’s friendship on St Helena with Betsy Balcombe.
Unfortunately the article doesn’t mention our friend Staton Rabin, who wrote a book on the friendship which is being used as the source material for the other film mentioned in the article, [...]

I’m going to set up links to Google Maps of Napoleonic sites as we journey through this show. For those of you not familiar with Europe, it might help to put some tales into context.
So, in order to start the beginning, here’s a link to Napoleon’s house in Ajaccio.
If you have Google Earth installed, you [...]

Who reads Napoleonic literature?
Sir Anthony O’Reilly, that’s who.
Executive Chairman of Independent News and Media, Sir Tony has just written an excellent review of Adam Zamoyski’s “1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March On Moscow” for the NZ Herald.
I’m currently reading it as well and enjoying it very much. Zamoyski really drags you into the morass of egos, betrayal [...]

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? Why have more books been written about this man than anyone else in history apart from perhaps Jesus Christ? And why are so many people around the world fascinated with his story? Was he a tyrant? Was he, as Chateaubriand said, ‘mightiest breath of life which ever animated human clay’?
This [...]