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Authors: Jakob Walter
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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.
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.
APOLEONIC
W
ARS AND
C
AMPAIGN OF
1812
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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.
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Brett-James, Antony, ed.
1812—Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966.
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Caulaincourt, Armand Augustin Louis, marquis de, duc de Vicence.
Memoirs.
Edited by Jean Hanoteau, translation by Hamish Miles. London: Cassell, 1950.
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———.
General Wilson’s Journal 1812–1814.
London: William Kimber, 1964.
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Clausewitz, Carl von.
The Campaign of 1812 in Russia.
Translated from the German. London: J. Murray, 1843 (reprinted: Hattiesburg, Miss.: Academic International, 1970.)
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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.
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Nafziger, George F.
Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia.
Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1988.
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Riehn, Richard K.
Napoleon’s Russian Campaign.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.
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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.
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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.
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Most recent professional accounts of the technical aspects of the campaign of 1812.
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Accounts by participants.
