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Top Ten Books on Napoleon Bonaparte

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* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465055931/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465055931&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0ba7078360db028ec773f23136cb462b Napoleon: A Life] by Adam Zamoyski
The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context. Unfortunately, this is one of the two books on this list called ''Napoleon: A Life''. The publishers should have used a little bit of imagination and done a better differentiating these two books.
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0025236601/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0025236601&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ad50ad39e3f61889d2fdf8820820d856 The Campaigns of Napoleon] by David G Chandler
Unfortunately, this is an older book and it only comes in hardcover. Due to its high price, we recommend that you check it out from a library.
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848325827/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1848325827&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0e9da97ff734fc10eec162173f11e4b8 With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign ] by John H Gill
* When Napoleon’s Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, these troops provided played a key role as Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Robertsswept from victory to victory and in 1809 their fighting abilities were crucial to the campaign. With Napoleon’s French troops depleted and debilitated after the long struggle in the Spanish War, the German troops for the first time played a major combat role in the center of the battle line. In this epic work, John Gill presents an unprecedented and comprehensive study of this year of glory for the German soldiers fighting for Napoleon, When combat opened they were in the thick of the action, fighting within French divisions and often without any French support at all. They demonstrated tremendous skill, courage and loyalty.
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735222622/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0735222622&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=da96438d744f07ccbf7e043bd99efae2 The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape] by Mark Braude
Only months after Napoleon's invasion in 1807, Spain seemed ready to fall: its rulers were in prison or in exile, its armies were in complete disarray, and Madrid had been occupied. However, the Spanish people themselves, particularly the peasants of Navarre, proved unexpectedly resilient. In response to impending defeat, they formed makeshift governing juntas, raised new armies, and initiated a new kind of people's war of national liberation that came to be known as guerrilla warfare. Key to the peasants' success, says Tone, was the fact that they possessed both the material means and the motives to resist. The guerrillas were neither bandits nor selfless patriots but landowning peasants who fought to protect the old regime in Navarre and their established position within it.
Bonus Book* [https:* //www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BXA0Y6K/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01BXA0Y6K&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=04532241e0de58872485ab7ed51804cc Talleyrand ] by Duff Cooper While this book is not specifically about Napoleon, it examines the early 19th century through Tallyrand. Tallyrand was the French Foreign Minister for multiple French regimes and one of the most interesting and remarkable diplomats of the 19th century. Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand’s gifts to France arguably outvalued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service.  Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Duff Cooper’s classic biography contains all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject.  [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:French History]] [[Category:Booklists]]
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