by cameron | Dec 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/pandemics/2012/12/napoleon_march_to_russia_in_1812_typhus_spread_by_lice_was_more_powerful.single.html According to author Stephan Talty, Napoleon’s Grand Armee was defeated in Russia during the 1812 campaign, not...
by cameron | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog, Napoleon news
“I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three in the morning.” So wrote Napoleon in this coded letter dated October 20, 1812 and sold at auction this week for 187,500 euros ($233,800). It had been expected to fetch between 10,000 and 15,000 euros but...
by cameron | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, video
Rod Steiger. Christopher Plummer. Orson Welles. Sergey Bondarchuk’s 1970 film WATERLOO may have flopped at the box office. It may have killed Stanley Kubrick’s chances of making his own Napoleon film. It may be flawed in many ways. Yet it is also wonderful...
by cameron | Sep 10, 2012 | Blog
David shot me a link to this recent interview he did on Russian television about Napoleon! It runs for 24 minutes and explores whether Napoleon was a hero or a villan. As you’d expect, David laid out the facts, clearly and simply. Unfortunately I can’t...
by cameron | Aug 16, 2012 | Napoleon news
Okay folks, to celebrate Napoleon’s birthday, I’m going to make you a promise – when the Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast Facebook page gets to 1000 likes, I will hold JDM down and FORCE him to record a new episode with me! Do we have a deal?? Now I know...
