Napoleon biographies, books covering the Napoleonic age, etc.

Thread: Napoleon biographies, books covering the Napoleonic age, etc.

  1. Cozur said:

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    Yeah, I'm looking for some good books on the subject, in preparation for NTW.

    Already read the entire Sharpe series (just to get in the mood), and then read Vincent Cronins biography, however, most of my collection is concerned with antiquity, and therefore I now have no more books on the subject specified in the title.

    Which is why I am looking for recommendations.

    I also read War and Peace by the way.
     
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    Taxandrius said:

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    Rites of Peace, The fall of Napoleon & the congress of Vienna - Adam Zamoyski
     
  3. pannonian said:

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    Notebooks of Captain Coignet

    Accounts of Jean-Roch Coignet. from his beginnings as a private soldier to his becoming Napoleon's baggage master in the Waterloo campaign.

    Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was an illiterate peasant who was drafted into the French Army in 1799 and served in most of the major campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. He was present at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Spain, Wagram, the Invasion of Russia, Leipzig, and Waterloo. Despite his inexperience and size, Coignet was selected for the Grenadiers of the Guard with less than four years service, for bravery at the battle of Montebello. He served with the Grenadiers for the next eleven years, until they were disbanded after Waterloo.
     
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    Maximinus Thrax said:

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    Count Emmanuel de Las Cases - The Memorial of Saint Helena. This man accompanied Napoleon on his exile and took many notes from their conversations, claiming that Boney himself dictated all the materials. The book it's somewhat biased towards the emperor but nevertheless it's a must for anyone interested in the subject.