The Bloody Reign of Napoleon
Eyewitness Memoirs, Strategy, and the Human Cost of Empire from Russia to WaterlooBy Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen, Carl Von Clausewitz, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane
Length358h 33m
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The Bloody Reign of Napoleon assembles a capacious archive of Napoleonic war, empire, and memory, juxtaposing military analysis, diplomatic chronicle, memoir, biography, and battlefield testimony. Its range extends from strategic reflections on campaigns and command to intimate accounts of marching, privation, captivity, and the human cost of imperial ambition. Major episodes—including the Peninsular conflict, the Russian campaign, and Waterloo—emerge not as settled legends but as contested experiences, rendered through both retrospective history and immediate witness. The volume brings together Napoleon's own political and military presence with French officers, attendants, and chroniclers, alongside British soldiers, commentators, and later historians. These voices belong to the vast nineteenth-century literature through which the Napoleonic era was interpreted, memorialized, and mythologized. Their differing national loyalties, ranks, and temporal distances create a productive tension between official explanation, personal recollection, tactical judgment, and moral indictment, illuminating how modern Europe understood conquest and resistance. Ideal for students and general readers of military history, The Bloody Reign of Napoleon offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare perspectives within a single volume. Readers will find both a valuable introduction to the era's campaigns and an instructive dialogue about leadership, violence, memory, and historical narration. Its breadth rewards close reading, inviting audiences to test heroic legend against the granular evidence of war.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length358 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814 (Annotated)
2The Bloody Reign of Napoleon
3Historical Works
4The History of Napoleonic Wars (Charles Downer Hazen)
5The First Wars (The Era of Directory)
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6The Consulate
7The Early Years of the Empire
8The Empire at Its Height
9The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
10The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz)
11CHAPTER I
12CHAPTER II
13CHAPTER III (pt. 1)
14CHAPTER III (pt. 2)
15History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
16HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
17BOOK I.
18BOOK II.
19BOOK III.
20BOOK IV.
21BOOK V.
22BOOK VI.
23BOOK VII.
24HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
25BOOK VIII.
26Chapter I
27Chapter II
28Chapter III
29Chapter IV
30Chapter V
31Chapter VI
32Chapter VII
33Chapter VIII
34Chapter IX
35Chapter X
36Chapter XI
37BOOK IX.
38BOOK X.
39BOOK XI.
40BOOK XII.
41Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 1)
42Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 2)
43Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
44Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
45Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
46England and Napoleon (1801-1815) (S. E. Winbolt)
47INTRODUCTION
48THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
49VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
50THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
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