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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Wellington

30 books — 5 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Classic Books About War

55 books — 2 voters

Memoirs of the Empress Josephine by Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gra...

The Life of the Empress Josephine (Annotated) by Phineas Camp Headley

Joséphine de Beauharnais books

19 books — 2 voters

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Culture And Language French Works In Translation

73 books — 4 voters

The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John Crittenden Duval

Fire and Sword in the Sudan by Rudolf Carl von Slatin

The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris by Benjamin Randell Harris

Under the red and Gold; Being Notes and Recollections of the ... by Saturnino Martín Cerezo

Military Memoirs From the 1800s

45 books — 3 voters

The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour by David Ebsworth

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Battle of Waterloo

55 books — 20 voters

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“ Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

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“ What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention ... How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely? ...more ”
― Paul Valéry

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