Alan Forrrest
Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York, UK. He has published widely on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic history, on military experience in the Napoleonic armies, and more generally on the history and memory of war. His books include Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society during the Revolution and Empire (1989); The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789–1799 (1996); Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002); Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (2004); The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009); and Napoleon: Life, Legacy and Image (2011). He is also co-author, with Jean-Paul Bertaud and Annie Jourdan, of Napoléon, le monde et les Anglais: Guerre des mots et des images (2004); and has co-edited several works on the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, most recently, with Etienne François and Karen Hagemann, War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture (2012). He is currently working on the decline of the French Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and is preparing, with Matthias Middell, an edited collection on the French Revolution in World History.
