INDISPENSABLE
- 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.
BIOGRAPHIES OF NAPOLEON
- 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. - Ellis, G., Napoleon, Longman Higher Education (Profiles in Power series), 1997, 304 p.
Key basic introduction. - 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.
ON THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE
- Blanning, T. C. W. (ed.), The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 301 p.
Incisive overview.
ON BRITISH POLITICS
- Ehrman, J., The Younger Pitt, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 914 p.
The principal work on Pitt.
ON NAPOLEONIC GERMANY
- 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.
MILITARIA
- 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. - Smith, D., The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars data book, London: Greenhill Books, 2000, 582 p.
All those military facts at your fingertips.
ART HISTORY
- Wilson-Smith, T., Napoleon and His Artists, London: Constable, 1996, 306 p.