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
The Coming Fury by Bruce CattonUp Front by Bill  MauldinHiroshima by John HerseyThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Classic Books About War
55 books — 2 voters

The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John Crittenden DuvalFire and Sword in the Sudan by Rudolf Carl von SlatinThe Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob WalterThe Recollections of Rifleman Harris by Benjamin Randell HarrisUnder 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 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

Friedrich Nietzsche
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

Paul Valéry
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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