Aside from books published in 2005, this selection of reading matter for the beach is unashamedly naval and 1805-related, but also aims to provide something for everyone.
NAVAL
– ADKINS Roy, Trafalgar: the biography of a battle
– BENNETT Geoffrey, The Battle of Trafalgar
– FRASER Edward, The Enemy at Trafalgar (new introduction by Marianne Czisnik and Michael Nash)
– LAVERY Brian, Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar
– MACDONALD Janet, Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era
– WHITE Colin, (ed.), Nelson – The New Letters
GENERAL AND MILITARY
– GEORGE Michael, GEORGE Martin, Coast of Conflict, the story of the South Kent Coast
– NAPOLEON, Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 2 : la campagne d'Egypte et l'avènement, 1798-1799
– NORTH Jonathan, (ed., trans.), Napoleon's Army in Russia, the illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam – 1812
– OMAN Sir Charles, A History of the Peninsular War (reprint), vols V and VI
– SEMMEL Stuart, Napoleon and the British
– WILCKEN Patrick, Empire adrift
BIOGRAPHY
– ABELL (BETSY BALCOMBE) Mrs, To Befriend an Emperor: Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St Helena
– FAIRWEATHER Maria, Madame De Stael
– FRASER Flora, Princesses: the six daughters of George III
– MILLER David, The Duchess of Richmond's Ball, 15 June, 1815
– ROBINSON Jane, Mary Seacole
FICTION
– RABIN Staton, Betsy and the Emperor
– WILLIG Lauren, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation