Napoleonic Book Picks w/Alex Mikaberidze

In this episode, Bernie Campbell follows up his interview with Charles by talking with Alexander Mikaberidze about the books he has found inspiring during his work on the Napoleonic era. It's a really interesting list, since Alex's background has brought him into contact with some interesting works that may not be familiar to the English speaking world! Links for many of these books are below! Please know that if you purchase a book from one of our links, Napoleonic Quarterly may earn a commission from that purchase, which we will use to support our mission to bring you as much new and interesting Napoleonic content as possible! English Language Titles  Albert Manfred. Napoleon Bonaparte (Spanish Translation of Russian Text available here: https://amzn.to/3SrfS0f Gareth Glover.  Waterloo: Myth and Reality https://amzn.to/3FScuny The Waterloo Archive: https://amzn.to/3FOT57c Rory Muir  Wellington The Path to Victory https://amzn.to/3soB7Fw Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon https://amzn.to/405OmHx Salamanca 1812 https://amzn.to/4003VAn Micheal Hughes. Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808 https://amzn.to/49mHrho Micheal Broers. Napoleon: Solider of Destiny(Vol 1) https://amzn.to/3u1sFMS Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age (Vol 2) https://amzn.to/3MxYwLk Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire (Vol 3) https://amzn.to/471cfCO Andrew Robets: Napoleon: A Life. https://amzn.to/49or7fY David Markham: Napoleon’s Road to Glory https://amzn.to/3QMKOWD Arthur Conan Doyle. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. https://amzn.to/3QKUOke The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot https://amzn.to/47jAjAp Susanna Clarke. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell https://amzn.to/47j2dww Naomi Novik. His Majesty’s Dragon https://amzn.to/3SpBWZj Evan Wilson. The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars. https://amzn.to/3scRVzm  Luke Reyonlds. Who Owned Waterloo? Battle, Memory and Myth in British History 1815-1850  https://amzn.to/3Sve6LD William Doyle. Napoleon at Peace: How to End the Revolution. https://amzn.to/3QPtUb3 Helion Press: https://www.helion.co.uk/conflicts/napoleonic-wars.php?sid=1e6524f4cdb9108c13f97e31d2a497b7 H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher, Napoleon (New York: Holt, 1913) https://amzn.to/40tr4LT Felix Markham, Napoleon. https://amzn.to/3MwOfiA French Language Titles  Thierry Lentz: Nouvelle Histoire du Premier Empire (Paris : Fayard, 2002-2010), 3 volumes. https://amzn.to/47o2XjR Charles-Eloi Vial Napoléon et les bibliothèques (Paris : CNRS, 2021) https://amzn.to/49ohpdw Sauver l'Empire : 1813 : la fin de l’Europe napoléonienne (Paris : Perrin, 2023) https://amzn.to/40tKv7o 15 août 1811 : L’apogee de l’Empire (Paris : Tempus Perrin, 2023 https://amzn.to/3u3SAn5 Napoléon : La certitude et l’ambition (Paris : Perrin, 2021) https://amzn.to/3Mw6uES  Pierre Branda  La saga des Bonaparte https://amzn.to/46ZyzwI The Price of Glory: Napoleon and Money (Various History) https://amzn.to/49n0LLr  Russian Language Titles  Sergei Iskul’, Vneshnya politika Rossii i germanskie gosudarstva, 1801-1812 [ Russia’s Foreign Policy and the German States, 1801-1812] (St. Petersburg: Indrik, 2007) https://amzn.to/47gj1UM Victor Bezotosnyi, Rossiya v Napoleonovskikj voinakh 1805-1815 ggg [Russian in the Napoleonic Wars, 1805-1815] (Moscow: Polit. entsik., 2014) https://amzn.to/46SkyRj Vladimir Zemtsov, Russkii posol v Parizhe Knyaz’ A.B. Kurakin: khronika rokovykh let [A. B. Kurakin, the Russian Ambassador in Paris: A Chronicle of the Fateful Years] (Moscow: Rosspen, 2019) http://www.slavic-books.de/Zemtsov-V-Russkii-posol-v-Parizhe-kniaz-A-B-Kurakin-Khronika-rokovykh-let