Napoleon


Napoleon: A Life
The Campaigns of Napoleon
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
War and Peace
Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815
The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
Napoleon: The Path to Power
Napoleon
Napoleon in Egypt
Wellington by Rory MuirWellington by Elizabeth LongfordWELLINGTON'S SCAPEGOAT by Archie HunterJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeWellington by Rory Muir
Wellington
30 books — 5 voters
Memoirs of the Empress Josephine by Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gra...The Rose of Martinique by Andrea StuartJosephine by Kate WilliamsThe Life of the Empress Josephine (Annotated) by Phineas Camp HeadleyBecoming Josephine by Heather  Webb
Joséphine de Beauharnais books
19 books — 2 voters

The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour by David EbsworthAn Infamous Army by Georgette HeyerSharpe's Waterloo by Bernard CornwellWaterloo by Bernard CornwellVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Battle of Waterloo
55 books — 20 voters

John  Adams
This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. {Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits} ...more
John Adams, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.' Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.) ...more
Pierre-Simon Laplace

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