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We have selected here for you a list of books (all currently available) which we consider key works on the life and works of Napoleon Bonaparte and the First Empire in general - all are currently available in the shops.
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Dictionnaire Napoléon, ed. Jean Tulard, Paris: Fayard, 2ème édition, 1999, 2 volumes
In French but worth the effort.
See also: Pope, S., Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars, New York: Facts on File, 2000, 572 p.
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Biographies of Napoleon
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Tulard, J. (trans. T. Waugh), Napoleon: the myth of the saviour, London: Methuen, 1985, 470 p.
The key text - the translation is however occasionally not up to the task.
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Ellis, G., Napoleon, Longman Higher Education (Profiles in Power series), 1997, 304 p.
Key basic introduction.
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Woloch, I., Napoleon and His Collaborators : The Making of a Dictatorship, New York: W. W. Norton, 2001
Fascinating discussion of Napoleon's right- and left-hand men.
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On the Consulate and Empire
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Blanning, T. C. W. (ed.), The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 301 p.
Incisive overview.
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On British Politics
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Ehrman, J., The Younger Pitt, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 914 p.
The principal work on Pitt.
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On Napoleonic Germany
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Nipperdey, T., Germany From Napoleon to Bismark 1800-1866, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1996, 760 p.
The key work for the 19th century history of Germany.
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Militaria
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Smith, D., Napoleon's Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, London: Greenhill Books, 2000
Key book for history of the Napoleonic army.
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Smith, D., The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars data book, London: Greenhill Books, 2000, 582 p.
All those military facts at your fingertips.
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Art History
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Wilson-Smith, T., Napoleon and His Artists. London: Constable, 1996, 306 p.
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