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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ramage and the renegades	Dudley Pope	The Treaty of Amiens is signed and Nelson's navy languishes in port. Ramage is at home on half pay and suspects Napoleon will yet break the terms of the treaty. He is then given secret Admiralty orde…	OL10507369W
Shirley	Charlotte Brontë	<p><i>Shirley</i>, published in 1849, was <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-bronte">Charlotte Brontë’s</a> second novel after <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlott…	OL1095397W
BRITISH POETRY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS: VISIONS OF CONFLICT	SIMON BAINBRIDGE	ix, 259 pages ; 23 cm	OL13615082W
A Gathering of Eagles (Wakefield Dynasty #7)	Gilbert Morris	Two families—the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans—are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John…	OL14854708W
Twelve	Jasper Kent	Melding the supernatural and the historical, a thrilling novel of vampires in the Napoleonic warsZmyeevich had remained standing and now began to speak in very precise, but very formal and strangely …	OL14992761W
The Hartlepool Monkey	Sean Longley	When Simon Legris returns from an expedition to Africa, he brings home a monkey that understands human speech and names him Jacques LeSinge. Jacques becomes his servant. While in the service of an ai…	OL14994070W
Exploits and adventures of Brigadier Gerard	Arthur Conan Doyle	"Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned his attention to a very different hero. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army - recklessly brave, engagingly open…	OL1518174W
Napoleon on the art of war	Napoléon Bonaparte	In the capstone work of his career, distinguished military historian Jay Luvaas brings together in one volume the military genius of Napoleon. Unlike Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon neve…	OL15236200W
Dark Mirror	Mary Jo Putney	Tory and her friends receive an urgent summons, leading the young mages known as Merlin's Irregulars to ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to join them in 1804 and stop Napoleon from…	OL16564040W
Napoleon	Munro Price	On April 20, 1814, after a dizzying series of battles, campaigns, and diplomatic intrigues, a defeated Napoleon Bonaparte made his farewell speech to the Old Guard in the courtyard of the Chateau de …	OL17180599W
Girl On The Orlop Deck	Beryl Kingston	She will find her husband, even if it means enlisting… Portsmouth, 1803. The British Navy headed by Lord Admiral Nelson himself are in pursuit of Johnny Frenchman. For months, there have been r…	OL17467751W
The Sage of Waterloo	Leona Francombe	"On June 17, 1815, the Duke of Wellington amassed his troops at Hougoumont, an ancient farmstead not far from Waterloo. The next day, the French attacked--the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo--s…	OL17926705W
Through Russian Snows	G. A. Henty	Henty gives us two brothers as heroes, Frank and Julian Wyatt from Weymouth. Julian, through some fault of his own, is carried to France by smugglers and ends up in a French prison. Given the opportu…	OL1794637W
The Battle of Waterloo	David Pietrusza	A detailed account of the events leading up to a celebrated battle of the nineteenth century, the battle itself, and results of Napoleon's military failure.	OL1803420W
Nelson's navy in fiction and film	Sue Parrill	"This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and 25 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period and the extent to…	OL18668845W
The passion	Jeanette Winterson	Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms …	OL1918808W
Lord Hornblower	C. S. Forester	As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.	OL1937792W
Revisiting Napoleon's continental system	Johan Joor,Katherine Aaslestad	"Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks,…	OL19668904W
Miss Jacobson's Journey (Rothschild Trilogy #1)	Carola Dunn	Having refused the man her parents chose, Miriam Jacobson finds herself smuggling gold across Napoleon's France to Wellington in Spain, accompanied by two attractive men, both of whom detest her -- a…	OL20874029W
Sharpe's Fury	Bernard Cornwell	For more than twenty years, Richard Sharpe, the brave and dashing officer who rose from rags on the street to a commission in his majesty's army, has been thrilling audiences on both the page and on …	OL23268W