SUMMER READING LIST 2015

Author(s) : FONDATION NAPOLÉON
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Biographies

 
GUENIFFEY Patrice, Bonaparte: 1769-1802
BERKIN Carol,Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
WILLIAMS Kate, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
WILSON A. N., Victoria: A Life
ROBERTS Andrew: Napoleon the Great, (paperback now out 2015)

Memoires

 
NORTH Jonathan, Napoleon's Mameluke: The Memoirs of Roustam Raza
CLERENS Josee, Buying Louisiana: An Eyewitness's Account of the Louisiana Purchase
MIKABERIDZE Alexander, Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the 1807 Campaign 

General History

 
BATES Stephen, 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo
UGLOW Jenny, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815

Military and social history

 
CUCCIA Phillip R., Napoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
KRAAK Menno-Jan, Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
CLAYTON Tim and O'CONNELL Shiela, Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon

Fiction

 
FIELDS Bertram, Destiny: A Novel Of Napoleon & Josephine
LEYS Simon, The Death of Napoleon
MCCRAE Carolyn, A set of lies
VAN LAERHOVEN Bob, Baudelaire's Revenge: A Novel
SELIN Shannon, Napoleon in America
SCOTT LEWIS Diane, A Savage Exile: Vampires with Napoleon on St. Helena
MCGEE James, Rebellion: A Thriller in Napoleon's Paris
DIETRICH William, The Three Emperors: An Ethan Gage Adventure

Bicentenaries

 
Waterloo

CATHCART Brian, The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
MUIR Rory, Wellington, Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852
LENTZ Thierry, WATERLOO 1815 (in French)
FIELD Andrew, Prelude to Waterloo Quatre Bras: The French Perspective
FIELD Andrew, Waterloo: The French Perspective
O'KEEFFE Paul, Waterloo: The Aftermath
GLOVER Gareth, Waterloo: Myth and Reality
CLAYTON Tim: Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny (now out in paperback)
FOSTER Russ E., Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity 1815-2015
A NEAR OBSERVER , The Battle of Waterloo, a series of accounts by a near observer, (facsimile, first published 1815)
BAMFORD Andrew,With Wellington's Outposts: The Peninsular and Waterloo Letters of John Vandeleur
WHITE-SPUNNER Barney, Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo
 
Congress of Vienna

VICK Brian E., The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon
SIEVERS Frank (translator), 1815: Der Wiener Kongress und die Neugründung Europas (in German)
JARRETT Mark , The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy After Napoleon
 
100 Days

MÜCHLER Günter, Napoleons 100 Tage (in German)
KUIPERS Pier, Let's Trail: Napoleon's Hundred Days
 
St Helena

CAVANNA Alberto, L'ultimo viaggio dell'Imperatore Napoleone tra Waterloo e Sant'Elena (in Italian)
 
War of 1812

SCHABLITSKY Julie M., Archaeology of the War of 1812
DREZ Ronald J., The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception: The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
WATSON Robert P., America's First Crisis – The War of 1812
 


Miscellaneous

 
MURAT Laure, The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness

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