Réne Wilkin Author

Bernard Wilkin is a Belgian historian who works as a lecturer at the University of Exeter, where he specialises in the history of the French army and the French people at war, from Napoleon to the end of the Third Republic. He has published on various subjects such as propaganda in France during the two world wars, morale in the French army and on the home front during the Great War. Rene Wilkin, the father of Bernard, studied and taught history in the city of Liege where he was born. He is now retired but continues to work on Napoleonic history from a French perspective. Bernard and Rene Wilkin recently published Fighting for Napoleon: French Soldiers Letters 1799-1815.