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What's the best book to read on Napoleon?
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What's the best book to read on Napoleon?
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I love napoleon
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>>275734
interested in a particular period of his life OP? a campaign? his rule over emprie?
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>>275734
Campaigns of Napoleon by Chandler is the definitive napoleonic text
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Not OP, but I'd love to read books in the Napoleonic era that aren't too academic. I remember reading a sample from a memoir that was written by some British guy during what I think was the second coalition (?), talking about how Scottish troops were the best behaved, and about how Wellington was a ladies man. I wish I could remember the name, it was a great bit of literature and I would have loved to read the whole thing. Anyways, I'd like something that's informative, but not too heavy reading.

To give an example, I don't want Infantry in Attack, I want Panzer Commander.
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>>275734
Phenomenology of Spirit
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>>275897
this

also Chandler does an excellent commentary on Napoleon's military Maxims
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>>275734
Sharpe's Waterloo
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>>275734
Benjamin Constant - The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation
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>>275734
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts.
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>>275897
Chandler confirmed
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You should start with the greeks.
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