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Does anyone have any recommendations for good books on the Napoleonic Era?
>inb4 War and Peace

>> No.11070418

That painting always gets to me, it's so beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOYlgvI1uE

>> No.11070455

>>11070405
well... did you read war and peace?

>> No.11071001

>>11070455
Not yet, i have a nice Easton press copy though. It'll probably be summer reading

>> No.11071017

>>11070418
Agreed, that's why I picked it. Wagner is great too

>> No.11071133

>>11070405
Though very simply told I like Erckmann\Chatrian's A Conscript of 1813 and Waterloo, both of which were written in the mid 19thc. Also Cornwell's Sharpe's Rifles Series (tracks Wellington's movements through the Peninsular Campaign, the invasion of France to Waterloo) as well as his History of that time period. Also Stendahl's Charterhouse.. is just amazing.

>> No.11071202

>>11071133
Thanks for the recommendation. Any preferred translations or editions for these?

>> No.11071732

>>11071202
The first two novels so far as I'm aware are only available in English in an old single volume Dutton/Dent Everyman. Theyre out there, and can probably be had for cheap off ABE. The Cornwell stuff's of course in English. The Stendahl I read for a class so the book was assigned and I never investigated.

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Les Mis has a pretty sizeable section on Waterloo as well that you can buy as a standalone book. From memory it make a lot of references without explaining them

>> No.11072847

caulaincourt - with napoleon in russia
marbot memoirs
rochlitz's impressionistic account of leipzig battle (praised by goethe)
gorgaud's writings are the most substantial compared to other st helena writers

biographic essays about napoleon: by stendhal and elie faure

>> No.11073192

>>11071001
Nice one anon, I have War and Peace sitting on the shelf, but I'm waiting for the shitty British weather to pick up.
Something about it just screams summer reading.