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Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts · 2014

A sweeping, readable one-volume biography that traces how Napoleon crafted his own legend through bulletins, portraits, and memoirs, and how that legend was contested and dismantled by his enemies and later historians.

Napoleon's Exile

Patrick Rambaud · 2006

This novel, the final volume in Rambaud's acclaimed Napoleonic trilogy, intimately portrays Napoleon's captivity on St Helena, capturing the boredom, regrets, and fading grandeur of his last years in a way that will appeal to readers of historical fiction.

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

Sandra Gulland · 1657

A vivid novel of Josephine's life that shows the upheaval and separations she endured while Napoleon was on campaign, making it a strong fit for the experience of women left behind by soldiers and political turmoil.

Napoleon's Women

Christopher Hibbert · 2004

This readable group biography focuses on the women in Napoleon's life, including Josephine and his sisters, and explores how they coped with the absences and dislocations caused by his wars and political ambitions.

The Age of Napoleon

Alistair Horne · 2004

A concise, accessible introduction that connects the wars to the social and economic transformations ordinary people experienced across Europe.

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

David A. Bell · 2007

Bell argues that the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars invented total war, tracing how universal conscription and mass mobilisation transformed European states and societies.

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