Napoleonic Book Picks w/Alex Mikaberidze

The Napoleonic Quarterly

In this episode, Bernie Campbell follows up his interview with Charles by talking with Alexander Mikaberidze about the books he has found inspiring during his work on the Napoleonic era. It's a really interesting list, since Alex's background has brought him into contact with some interesting works that may not be familiar to the English speaking world!

Links for many of these books are below! Please know that if you purchase a book from one of our links, Napoleonic Quarterly may earn a commission from that purchase, which we will use to support our mission to bring you as much new and interesting Napoleonic content as possible!

English Language Titles

• Albert Manfred. Napoleon Bonaparte (Spanish Translation of Russian Text available here: https://amzn.to/3SrfS0f

• Gareth Glover.

• Waterloo: Myth and Reality https://amzn.to/3FScuny

• The Waterloo Archive: https://amzn.to/3FOT57c

• Rory Muir

• Wellington The Path to Victory https://amzn.to/3soB7Fw

• Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon https://amzn.to/405OmHx

• Salamanca 1812 https://amzn.to/4003VAn

• Micheal Hughes. Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808 https://amzn.to/49mHrho

• Micheal Broers.

• Napoleon: Solider of Destiny(Vol 1) https://amzn.to/3u1sFMS

• Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age (Vol 2) https://amzn.to/3MxYwLk

• Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire (Vol 3) https://amzn.to/471cfCO

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• Andrew Robets: Napoleon: A Life. https://amzn.to/49or7fY

• David Markham: Napoleon’s Road to Glory https://amzn.to/3QMKOWD

• Arthur Conan Doyle. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. https://amzn.to/3QKUOke

• The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot https://amzn.to/47jAjAp

• Susanna Clarke. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell https://amzn.to/47j2dww

• Naomi Novik. His Majesty’s Dragon https://amzn.to/3SpBWZj

• Evan Wilson. The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars. https://amzn.to/3scRVzm

• Luke Reyonlds. Who Owned Waterloo? Battle, Memory and Myth in British History 1815-1850 https://amzn.to/3Sve6LD

• William Doyle. Napoleon at Peace: How to End the Revolution. https://amzn.to/3QPtUb3

• Helion Press: https://www.helion.co.uk/conflicts/napoleonic-wars.php?sid=1e6524f4cdb9108c13f97e31d2a497b7

• H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher, Napoleon (New York: Holt, 1913) https://amzn.to/40tr4LT

• Felix Markham, Napoleon. https://amzn.to/3MwOfiA

French Language Titles

• Thierry Lentz: Nouvelle Histoire du Premier Empire (Paris : Fayard, 2002-2010), 3 volumes. https://amzn.to/47o2XjR

• Charles-Eloi Vial

• Napoléon et les bibliothèques (Paris : CNRS, 2021) https://amzn.to/49ohpdw

• Sauver l'Empire : 1813 : la fin de l’Europe napoléonienne (Paris : Perrin, 2023) https://amzn.to/40tKv7o

• 15 août 1811 : L’apogee de l’Empire (Paris : Tempus Perrin, 2023 https://amzn.to/3u3SAn5

• Napoléon : La certitude et l’ambition (Paris : Perrin, 2021) https://amzn.to/3Mw6uES

• Pierre Branda

• La saga des Bonaparte https://amzn.to/46ZyzwI

• The Price of Glory: Napoleon and Money (Various History) https://amzn.to/49n0LLr

Russian Language Titles

• Sergei Iskul’, Vneshnya politika Rossii i germanskie gosudarstva, 1801-1812 [ Russia’s Foreign Policy and the German States, 1801-1812] (St. Petersburg: Indrik, 2007) https://amzn.to/47gj1UM

• Victor Bezotosnyi, Rossiya v Napoleonovskikj voinakh 1805-1815 ggg [Russian in the Napoleonic Wars, 1805-1815] (Moscow: Polit. entsik., 2014) https://amzn.to/46SkyRj

• Vladimir Zemtsov, Russkii posol v Parizhe Knyaz’ A.B. Kurakin: khronika rokovykh let [A. B. Kurakin, the Russian Ambassador in Paris: A Chronicle of the Fateful Years] (Moscow: Rosspen, 2019) http://www.slavic-books.de/Zemtsov-V-Russkii-posol-v-Parizhe-kniaz-A-B-Kurakin-Khronika-rokovykh-let