Summer Selection 2020

Author(s) : FONDATION NAPOLÉON
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Whether you’re staying at home,  going for a quick break locally or venturing abroad, you’ll probably want to pop something Napoleonic in your bag, (or try downloading an audiobook!)

For more ideas take a look at our previous selections … Christmas Selection 2019, Christmas Selection 2018Summer Reading List 2018, Christmas 2017Summer Reading list 2017Christmas 2016Summer Selection 2016, Christmas 2015, Summer  2015.

Summer Selection 2020

General

MIKABERIDZE Alexander, The Napoleonic Wars A Global History

FORREST Alan, The Death of the French Atlantic > Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

ROBSON Martin, Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime Conflict

Uniformology

LYALL, Charles, Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo: Volume 1: The British Army

LYALL, Charles, Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo: Volume 2: The Allied Armies

DAWSON Paul L., Napoleon’s Waterloo Army: Uniforms and Equipment

TOWNSEND Ben, Fashioning regulation, regulating fashion: the uniforms and dress of the British Army 1800-1815 Volume I

TOWNSEND Ben, Fashioning regulation, regulating fashion: the uniforms and dress of the British Army 1800-1815 Volume II

Guidebook

BUTTERY David, Napoleon’s Paris: A Guide to the Napoleonic Sites of the Consulate and First French Empire

OTTE Maarten, The Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871: Touring the Sedan Campaign

Military

DAWSON Paul L., Battle for Paris 1815: The Untold Story of the Fighting after Waterloo

HAYNES Chrstine, Our Friends the Enemies The Occupation of France after Napoleon

OTTE Maarten, The Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871: Touring the Sedan Campaign

VAN UYTHOVEN Geert, They Fought With Extraordinary Bravery: The III German (Saxon) Army Corps in the Southern Netherlands, 1814

Biography

WEDGEWOOD Anthony, Tom Wedgwood at Waterloo: The Life of Thomas Josiah Wedgwood who Fought at Waterloo

Miscellaneous

MORRISON Robert, The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World

Foreign Languages

MARTINO Antonio, I soldati del Dipartimento di Montenotte (1805-1814) (Italian)

BALCOMBE Betsy, CARTAS-RUIZ ZIESKE Mónica (translator), Memorias del Emperador Napoleón: Durante los primeros tres años de su cautiverio en la isla de Santa Elena, Incluyendo el tiempo de residencia en la casa de su padre, “Los Briars” [Spanish translation of the Memoirs of Betsy Balcombe]

Audiobooks

Napoleon’s Grande Armée: The History and Legacy of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars

Antoine-Henri Jomini: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss General and His Famous Military Treatises about the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold

Napoleon: A Concise Biography bDavid A. Bell

NAPOLEON by Stanley Kubrick: World Premiere Recording

The Life of Napoleon: Volume 1 by William Hazlitt (1828)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization (fiction)

The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815, by Ariel and Will Durant

Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1, by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Learn strategy with Napoleon, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli

The Girl Who Fought Napoleon by Linda Lafferty

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon by Kate Williams

Sails on the Horizon: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars by J. Worrall

Resolute Determination: Napoleon and the French Empire, by Donald Sutherland

Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, By: Andrea Di Robilant (fiction)

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon, by Alexandre Dumas (fiction)

The Point of Honor, by Joseph Conrad (fiction)

The Great Shadow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Emerald Storm: An Ethan Gage Adventure, by William Dietrich (fiction)

Men-of-War, by Patrick O’brian

The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army, by Stephan Talty

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