May I recommend the third volume of Dwyer's biography of Napoleon? It's titled Passion, Death, and Resurrection 1815-1840, and it's very good inspite of Dwyer's constant sniping at Napoleon.
The book is very well researched and Dwyer has an elegant prose.
@leo.romero Volume one and two are very well researched and elegantly written but the author exhibits an intense dislike of Napoleon that may put off some readers.
What makes volume 3 particularly good is that the period from Napoleon's death in 1821 to the return of his ashes in 1840 is rarely covered in biographies.
Agree. I got my copy of The Campaigns of Napoleon as a hand me down from my late father, along with Barbarossa (Alan Clark) and A Soldier's Story (Gen. Omar Bradley).
I have never stepped out of that gateway since then.
Roberts reading list is quite boring, the usual stuff, instead I offer this book as a must read about Nabulieone
in case you like to learn a lot about Napoleon in 1813 and about his personality, the more well known book by Odeleben, in my view a must read
A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Saxony, in the year 1813. Written originally in German
by Odeleben, Ernst Otto Innocenz, freiherr von, 1777-1833
May I recommend the third volume of Dwyer's biography of Napoleon? It's titled Passion, Death, and Resurrection 1815-1840, and it's very good inspite of Dwyer's constant sniping at Napoleon.
The book is very well researched and Dwyer has an elegant prose.
Chandler is the Napoleonic Wars gateway drug. 😉
Roberts reading list is quite boring, the usual stuff, instead I offer this book as a must read about Nabulieone
in case you like to learn a lot about Napoleon in 1813 and about his personality, the more well known book by Odeleben, in my view a must read
A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Saxony, in the year 1813. Written originally in German by Odeleben, Ernst Otto Innocenz, freiherr von, 1777-1833