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R
EFERENCE
W
ORKS

Tulard, Jean.
Bibliographie critique des ménoires sur le consulat et l’empire écrits où traduits en francais.
Paris-Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1971. Most useful guide to memoir literature of the period.

———, ed.
Dictionnaire Napoléon.
Paris: Fayard, 1987. Most recent and up-to-date compendium, alphabetically arranged, on everything pertaining to Napoleon, his reign, wars, statecraft, and the major events of his day.

G
ENERAL
H
ISTORIES OF THE
P
ERIOD

Breunig, Charles.
The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789–1850.
Vol. IV,
The Norton History of Modern Europe.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1970.

Gershoy, Leo.
The French Revolution and Napoleon.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955.

Holborn, Hajo.
A History of Modern Germany 1648–1840.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

Seton-Watson, Hugh.
The Russian Empire 1801–1917.
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1967.

Thomson, David.
Europe Since Napoleon.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Has useful survey account of Napoleonic period.

N
APOLEONIC
W
ARS AND
C
AMPAIGN OF
1812


Bourgogne, Adrien Jean Baptiste.
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812–1813.
Authorized translation with introduction by Hon. J. W. Fortescue. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929.


Brett-James, Antony, ed.
1812—Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966.


Caulaincourt, Armand Augustin Louis, marquis de, duc de Vicence.
Memoirs.
Edited by Jean Hanoteau, translation by Hamish Miles. London: Cassell, 1950.


———.
General Wilson’s Journal 1812–1814.
London: William Kimber, 1964.


Clausewitz, Carl von.
The Campaign of 1812 in Russia.
Translated from the German. London: J. Murray, 1843 (reprinted: Hattiesburg, Miss.: Academic International, 1970.)


Coignet, J.R.
The Note-books of Captain Coignet, Soldier of the Empire.
London: Greenhill Books, 1985.

Duffy, Christopher.
Borodino and the War of 1812.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Josselson, Michael and Diana.
The Commander—A Life of Barclay de Tolly.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.


Nafziger, George F.
Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia.
Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1988.


Riehn, Richard K.
Napoleon’s Russian Campaign.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.


Ségur, Paul Philippe.
Napoleon’s Russian Campaign.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Tarlé, E. V.
Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia 1812.
New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1942.


Wilson, R. T., Sir.
Narrative of Events during the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Retreat of the French Army 1812.
London: 1860.

Woloch, Isser.
The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

And of course no one has surpassed Leo Tolstoy’s description of the atmosphere in Russia during the Napoleonic period in
War and Peace.


Most recent professional accounts of the technical aspects of the campaign of 1812.


Accounts by participants.

 

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