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Novels that will make you crave booze

Edit The Guardian 28 Aug 2015
In fiction, at least, the privations and compromises of war can be made much more palatable with judicious amounts of alcohol. For the past year I have only read books about drink ... The hero, Jean Lannes, a policeman, is always having an armagnac, stopping for a glass of marc with a shady character, offering Dubonnet to his mother-in-law, ordering a demi-litre of medoc or a bottle of St Emilion, or sipping a beer ... I disagree ... ....

Intimate letters from Joséphine Bonaparte to general of Napoleon’s for auction

Edit The Irish Times 28 Apr 2014
In 1806 Joséphine Bonaparte wrote to one of Napoleon’s most trusted generals, Alexandre Berthier, who had become her own close friend, appealing to him to guard the emperor’s safety in battle ... Revealing ... Intimate ... In the last of the letters, in 1809, she wrote to Berthier of the death of Jean Lannes, one of Napoleon’s most brilliant generals who also became her close friend....

Joséphine's letters to trusted Napoleon general to go on sale in Paris

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2014
Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte ... In the last of the letters, in 1809, she wrote to Berthier of the death of Jean Lannes, one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals who also became a close friend of her's ... Lannes was badly injured in the French defeat at the battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, when the Austrians drove Napoleon back from an attempted crossing of the Rhine. Both Lannes's legs were amputated ... ....

10 Bold Battlefield Deceptions That Actually Worked

Edit ListVerse 10 Apr 2014
Marc V. April 10, 2014. We’ve previously discussed some of those tactics so crazy and unconventional that they had to work ... 10The Fake Letter That Made An Entire Castle Surrender ... French Marshals Jean Lannes and Joachim Murat realized that they needed the heavily guarded bridge to cross the Danube ... When one Austrian solder tried to blow up the bridge, Lannes berated him and said that doing so would mean a serious criminal offense ... Marc V ... ....
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