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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

2014

NON-FICTION

Cornwell brings the chaos and drama of Waterloo to life in vivid narrative history.

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Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition

Robert Goetz

2005

NON-FICTION

Detailed military history of Napoleon's greatest victory.

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The Campaigns of Napoleon

David Chandler

1966

REFERENCE

The most comprehensive study of Napoleon's military campaigns ever written. An indispensable reference for understanding Napoleonic warfare.

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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

Adam Zamoyski

2004

NON-FICTION

Zamoyski's devastating account of the Grande Armée's catastrophic Russian campaign, told through the voices of soldiers on both sides.

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Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

1598

MILITARY HISTORY

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1904

MILITARY HISTORY

A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism...

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War and Peace

Лев Толстой

1864

MILITARY HISTORY

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocra...

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Vom Kriege

Carl von Clausewitz

1835

MILITARY HISTORY

*Vom Kriege* is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak poin...

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A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill

1950

MILITARY HISTORY

Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by a profile of Sir Winston drawn from autobiographi...

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1900

MILITARY HISTORY

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

1945

MILITARY HISTORY

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' ...

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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862

MILITARY HISTORY

In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective ...

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Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

Karl Marx

1848

MILITARY HISTORY

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published ...

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