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1812:
Napoleon in Moscow, by Paul Britten Austin.
1812
: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, by Paul Britten Austin.
1812
The Great Retreat : Told by the Survivors, by Paul Britten
Austin.
Campaigns
of Napoleon : The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier, by
David G. Chandler. Probably the best known general Napoleonic work of this
century, Chandler's book is a good overview of the Napoleonic period. Serious
readers inevitably note a number of glaring errors, but these are commonly due
to mistakes "imported" from earlier secondary works, many of which were
apparently consulted for this volume. Overall though, it remains a very good
reference work.
Napoleonic Wars Napoleon's Army (Brassey's History of Uniforms
Series), by Rene Chartrand, Christa Hook (Illustrator)
Eagles
over the Alps : Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799, by Christopher
Duffy
A
Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, by Vincent J.
Esposito and John Elting.
Amateurs,
to Arms! : A Military History of the War of 1812, by John Elting
Swords
Around a Throne : Napoleon's Grande Armee (paperback), by John Elting.
A tour through the world of the French Army in the early 1800's. Each chapter
covers a certain branch or group in the military and supplies various unusual
personal accounts of every day life which make for terrific and factual
reading.
Napoleon's
Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War, (Modern War Studies), by
Robert M. Epstein
Napoleonic Wars Wellington's Army (Brassey's History of
Uniforms Series), by Ian Fletcher, Richard Hook (Illustrator)
Fields
of Fire: Battlefields of the Peninsular War, by Ian Fletcher
Die
Hard : Dramatic Actions from the Napoleonic Wars, by Philip
Haythornthwaite
Napoleon's Military Machine, by Philip J.
Haythornthwaite
1815 The Waterloo Campaign : Wellington, His German Allies and
the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, by Peter Hofschroer
Napoleon and Iberia : The Twin Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and
Almeida, 1810, by Donald Horward
Jena-Auerstaedt : The Triumph of the Eagle, by F.-G.
Houtoulle. An exceptional overview of these pivotal Napoleonic battles.
Includes a thorough overview of units, uniforms and leaders.
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon 1807-1815, by Rory
Muir
Napoleon's
Invasion of Russia, by George Nafziger
The
Napoleonic Wars, by Gunther E. Rothenberg. Part of the History of
Warfare Series.
Napoleon's
Great Adversary : Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792-1814, by
Gunther E. Rothenberg. A detailed assessment of the Austrian war machine and
its leaders.
Napoleon
in the Holy Land, by Nathan Schur. An overview of the French Syrian
expedition of 1799 which draws upon sources from both Europe and the Levant.
Twenty-Five
Years in the Rifle Brigade, by William Surtees, Ian Fletcher
The
Eagle's Last Triumph : Napoleon's Victory at Ligny, June 1815, by
Andrew Uffindell
On
the Fields of Glory : The Battlefields of the 1815 Campaign, by Andrew
Uffindel & Michael Corum
« Tactics, Stategy
& Policy
The
Anatomy of Glory : Napoleon and His Guard : A Study in Leadership, by
Lachouque, Brown, Elting
Imperial
Bayonets : Napoleonic Tactics, by George Nafziger
The
Impact of Napoleon : Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis
of the Executive, 1797-1806
The Enlightened Soldier : Scharnhorst and the Militarische
Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805, by Charles White
« Units & Uniforms
Napoleon's
Grande Armee of 1813, by Scotty Bowden
Poles
and Saxons of the Napoleonic Wars, by George Nafziger
Napoleon's
Elite Heavy Cavalry : Cavalry of the Imperial Guard, 1804-1815, by
Lucien Rousselot and Edward Ryan
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Biographies & Memoirs
Life
in Napoleon's Army, Elzear Blaze. An excellent "old soldier's" account
of the Napoleonic Wars from the point of view of a cavalry trooper. Full of
interesting anecdotes about every day living, complaints about high command and
"tall" stories.
The
Campaign of 1812 in Russia, by General Carl von Clauswitz
The
Note-Books of Captain Coignet : Soldier of the Empire, 1799-1816,
Jean-Roch Coignet
The
Emperor's Friend: Marshal Jean Lannes by Margaret Scott
Chrisawn
In
the Service of the Tsar against Napoleon : The Memoirs of Denis Davydov
1806-1814, by Denis Vasilevich Davydov.
Napoleon
- How He Did It : The Memoirs of Baron Fain, by Agathon Jean Francoi
Fain.
The
Iron Marshal : A Biography of Louis N. Davout, by John G.
Gallaher.
Memoirs
of the Late Major General Le Marchant, by Denis Le Marchant.
Journal
of the Waterloo Campaign, Cavalie Mercer. A British Artillery officer's
account of the famous Waterloo Campaign. This first hand source is valuable not
only because of its priceless accounts of artillery in action, but also because
of the author's clarity and wonderful sense of observation.
Napoleon
and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo, by Andrew Roberts
History
of the Waterloo Campaign, by Captain W. Siborne
Diary
of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Jakob Walter. Written by a German
soldier in French service, the main body of the book is his day-to-day record
of the 1812 Russian campaign.
« The Naval
War
Nelson
Speaks : Admiral Lord Nelson in His Own Words by Joseph F. Callo
At
first I was afraid that this book was another selection of already published
letters, repackaged for the mass market. But the author has a firm knowledge of
the history of Nelsonian documents as evidenced by the wonderful introduction,
and he presents excerpts from many rare and little-read items. I would have
liked to see longer quotes supplied throughout, but still an excellent
book.
Chronicles
of the Frigate Macedonian : 1809-1922, by James De Kay
Napoleon's Lost Fleet: Bonaparte, Nelson, and the Battle of the Nile,
by Laura Foreman, Ellen Blue Phillips, Franck Goddio
Frigates
of the Napoleonic Wars, by Robert Gardiner
Every Man Will Do His Duty, by Dean King and John B.
Hattendorf (Editors)
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of
Nelson.
Nelson's
Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815, by Brian
Lavery
Jack
Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick
O'Brian, by Brian Lavery
Nelson and the Nile : The Naval War Against Bonaparte
1798, by Brian Lavery
Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600-1815, by
Brian Lavery
Most
Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson, by Steven
E. Maffeo
The Wooden World : An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, by N.
A. M. Rodger. An outstanding textbook which methodically examines every major
aspect of Royal Navy operations during the mid-eighteenth century. Includes
sections on Shipboard life, Careers, Victualling and Politics to name a
few.
Nelson's Battles : The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail,
by Nicholas Tracy
The
Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War, Volume
III: 18051806, by Nicholas Tracy (Editor)
The
Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War, Volume
IV: 18071809, by Nicholas Tracy (Editor)
The
Naval Chronicle : The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War, Volume
I: 1793-1798, by Nicholas Tracy (Editor)
The
Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars, by Tom
Wareham
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