The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Eyewitness Memoirs, Military Strategy, and the European Legacy of Empire, Exile, and WaterlooBy Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl Von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, 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 30m
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The Rise and Fall of Napoleon assembles a capacious documentary and literary portrait of the Napoleonic age, tracing the transformation of revolutionary general into imperial ruler and defeated exile. Military analysis, memoir, biography, eyewitness recollection, political history, and romance-inflected narrative coexist here, illuminating battlefield strategy alongside courtly ceremony, private ambition, and the human costs of continental war. Vivid campaign narratives and reflections on Waterloo give the volume particular dramatic force. Its contributors include commanders, soldiers, attendants, historians, and major literary interpreters of the nineteenth century, as well as Napoleon himself. Their varied positions—from the Emperor's inner circle to British and French military experience—situate the collection within the enduring historiographical contest over Napoleonic heroism, despotism, modernity, and memory. Together these voices reveal how the legend of Napoleon was fashioned through testimony, retrospective judgment, and imaginative reconstruction. Recommended for students of European history, military studies, and historical literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare perspectives within a single volume. Readers will find both an accessible introduction to the Napoleonic Wars and a stimulating archive of competing interpretations, whose dialogue deepens understanding of power, leadership, nationalism, and historical remembrance.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length358 hrs 30 mins
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Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Annotated)
2The Rise and Fall 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) (pt. 1)
11The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 2)
12The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 3)
13History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
14HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
15BOOK I.
16BOOK II.
17BOOK III.
18BOOK IV.
19BOOK V.
20BOOK VI.
21BOOK VII.
22HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
23BOOK VIII. (pt. 1)
24BOOK VIII. (pt. 2)
25BOOK IX.
26BOOK X.
27BOOK XI.
28BOOK XII.
29Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 1)
30Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 2)
31Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
32Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
33Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
34England and Napoleon (1801-1815) (S. E. Winbolt)
35INTRODUCTION
36THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
37VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
38THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
39Mr. Perceval’s Answer.
40ODE WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BUONAPARTE (1814). Source.—Robert Southey: Poems.
41The Waterloo Roll Call (Charles Dalton)
42INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION.
43ABBREVIATIONS.
44THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL.
45STAFF.
46BRITISH AND HANOVERIAN ARMY AT WATERLOO,
47REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 1)
48REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 2)
49REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 3)
50REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 4)
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