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Old 11-01-2010, 06:21 PM   #1
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Napoleonic Wars fiction

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Old 11-02-2010, 12:44 AM   #2
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Well, I liked War and Peace. Does that count?
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Old 11-02-2010, 05:02 PM   #3
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It does indeed though I would never dare to compae with Tolstoy
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Old 11-02-2010, 05:39 PM   #4
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Doesn't quite fit the bill, but I've read Marbot's memoir. That was an excellent read.
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Old 11-02-2010, 05:57 PM   #5
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The story of Colhougn Grant riding officer is one of the most remarkable true accounts of the whole period. The 1st Respectable Spy by Jock Hasler is rare but worth finding
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I just started reading a period book:

Reminiscences and Remembrances of Captain Gronow, formerly of the Grenadier Guards: Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs, at the Close of the Last War with France.

Most of the book is about life in Britain during the war, but there's a lengthy section near the end that gives a firsthand account of several battles. One of the various editions available has a good account of Waterloo.

http://books.google.com/books?id=XRE...page&q&f=false
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Old 11-03-2010, 06:50 PM   #7
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This was a strange time in the history of London with a fear of invasion that was not to be matched until 1940
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Thread's a bit old and I don't know if you're checking it, but yes, Napoleonic period is very interesting.

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The whole early georgian period is fascinating, a war that was almost global, social revolution and unrest, great poverty and riches, debauchery and more. Perfect fiction material!
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The Richard Sharpe series, 20 books...liked them all

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Old 12-18-2010, 11:07 AM   #11
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You never know Archibald Dexter may one day rival the ubiquitous Mr Sharpe.
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Old 12-20-2010, 04:44 PM   #12
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Napoleonic Wars have provided some great novels... even more if we expand it slightly to include the French Revolution that lead directly to it.

Anyway, lets not forget the works of C.S. Forrester and Patrick O'Brien while we are on this list.

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Old 12-20-2010, 10:13 PM   #13
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Anyway, lets not forget the works of C.S. Forrester and Patrick O'Brien while we are on this list.
I'm glad somebody posted these authors. Good Age of Sail fiction in particular, and the Aubrey-Maturin series is one of my favourites. I also agree that the Georgian period is a particularly rich period of history for which to write fiction -- it's a pity that people sometimes confuse it with the Victorian period, which is interesting in its own right, but quite different.
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Old 12-21-2010, 02:54 AM   #14
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My only complaint with the Napoleonic Wars (from a Literary Perspective) is that they completely over shadow the century that preceded them. For one reason or another the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars seem to get more attention in literature than the other half dozen or so wars (depending on how you count) that England and France fought prior to them; including the American War of Independence.

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Bernard Cornwall (Sharpe series) has written some books about the American Revolutionary wars.

Redcoat and The Fort come to mind.

All excellent!
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