Top 10 Best "Napoleonic War" Books

Sails on the Horizon

Jay Worrall

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The Line Upon a Wind

Noel Mostert

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The Line Upon a Wind

The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics were brought to bear, along with such unheard-of weapons as rockets, torpedoes, and submarines. The war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier the world had ever known—Napoleon Buonaparte—whose vast ambition was thwarted by a genius he never met in person or in battle: Admiral Horatio Nelson. Noel Mostert's narrative ranges from the Mediterranean to the West Indies, Egypt to Scandinavia, showing how land versus sea was the key to the outcome of these wars. He provides details of ship construction, tactics, and life on board. Above all he shows us the extraordinary characters that were the raw material of Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's magnificent novels.

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French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792-1815 (Elite)

Paddy Griffith
Peter Dennis

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Napoleon's Wars

Charles Esdaile

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The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 (Modern Wars)

David Gates

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An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Digby Smith

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The First Total War

David A. Bell

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Armies of the Napoleonic Wars

Chris McNab

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The Napoleonic Wars (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

Gunther Rothenberg

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The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars

V. Bulmer-Thomas

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WARS AGAINST NAPOLEON, THE

Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon, a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head.

Avoiding the simplistic cliche's and rudimentary caricatures many historians use when discussing Napoleon, Franceschi and Weider argue persuasively that the caricature of the megalomaniac conqueror who bled Europe white to satisfy his delirious ambitions and insatiable love for war is groundless. By carefully scrutinizing the facts of the period and scrupulously avoiding the sometimes confusing cause and effect of major historical events, they paint a compelling portrait of a fundamentally pacifist Napoleon, one completely at odds with modern scholarly thought.

This rigorous intellectual presentation is based upon three principal themes. The first explains how an unavoidable belligerent situation ex...

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The Wars Against Napoleon

Michel Franceschi
Ben Weider
Jonathan M. House

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Field of Glory Napoleonic

Slitherine
Peter Dennis

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