Napoleon
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I want to study Napoleon. There's nothing on the wiki. Where do I start? Preferably something close to objective
fuck it, if we're gonna be off-topic the new BSMR album just leaked, thought ya'll shud kno
>>7364367
>BSMR
BMSR
fuck
WAR AND PEACE
and Les misérables
Totally objective
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Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts.
Napoleon is a literary figure as much as an historical one. ;^)
Start with the Greeks.
If it's written by a subject, it can't be objective.
If it's objective, it's not written.
>>7364612
That's why I said close to objective. I said that precisely because I knew someone would say what you said.
>>7364324
Don't do the same mistake like Raskolnikoff.
>>7364324
letlers from st Helena is beautiful
Try the Further Reading Section on wikipedia.
Check the archive too; I recall there being quite a good Napoleon thread a while back.
Andrew Roberts' Napoleon
Philip Dwyers' "path to power" and "citizen emperor"
Bourrienne's memoirs of napoleon
Chandler's campaigns of napoleon for a more technical view of his campaigns
