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Even Napoleon Had an Unpublished Manuscript, and Now It’s up for Auction
His handwritten novella captures his feelings toward love at age 26
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It Just Got Easier to Visit the Place Where Napoleon Was Exiled (the Second Time)
Remote, rugged, finally accessible — St. Helena will soon have its first-ever airport
Readers respond to our June issue
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Napoleon Had a Thing for Rotisserie Chicken
The military powerhouse ate chicken dinners 24/7 — even as his army starved
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The American at the Battle of Waterloo
The British remember William Howe De Lancey, an American friend to the Duke of Wellington, as a hero for the role he played in the 1815 clash
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Relive the Battle of Waterloo With These Astonishing Portraits of War Reenactors
Photographer Sam Faulkner shoots a portrait series that gives a face to the more than 200,000 soldiers who fought in the historic conflict
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Why We’d Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo
On the bicentennial of the most famous battle in world history, a distinguished historian looks at what could have been
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Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last
X-ray scans can just tease out letters on the warped documents from a library at Herculaneum
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War games enthusiasts use miniature soldiers and multiple-terrain boards to simulate real battles
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