Napoleonic(Bookshelf)

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources

Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The volume presents, for the first time, a complete collection of Napoleon I’s letters to his wife Joséphine,…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

The work is a memoir written by Louis‑Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon’s former private secretary,…

Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I

Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon

The work is a first‑person memoir by Baron Fleury de Chaboulon, a former secretary of Napoleon and a senior…

The Two Great Retreats of History

Grote, George; Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

The work is a historical narrative that intertwines the final campaign of the Persian prince Cyrus the…

The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography that seeks to rewrite the conventional narrative of Napoleon’s career by…

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The third volume of William Milligan Sloane’s four‑part biography of Napoleon offers a densely detailed study…

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly biography that situates Admiral Horatio Nelson within the strategic and political…

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson

Robert Southey

Robert Southey’s work is a biographical narrative that traces the formative years of Horatio Nelson, later…

Napoleon's Marshals

R. P. Dunn-Pattison

The work is a scholarly study of the men Napoleon appointed as Marshals of France, tracing their origins,…

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete

Louis Constant Wairy

This work is a memoir by Louis‑Constant Wairy, the Emperor’s chief valet, first issued in 1830 and now…

The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly biography that treats Admiral Horatio Nelson not merely as a hero of the Napoleonic…

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s role in the War of 1812, written by Theodore…

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

J. G. Lockhart

Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon

L. Mühlbach

The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815

Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland

Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical

Achilles Rose

Drake, Nelson and Napoleon

Walter Runciman

Murat Celebrated Crimes

Alexandre Dumas

Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II

Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon

The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French

Eugénie Foa

A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle

Lady Magdalene De Lancey

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2

James Harrison

The Second Funeral of Napoleon

William Makepeace Thackeray