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Booklist

This is the booklist for Napoleon on St Helena and his Atlantic World that I found useful in developing my understanding of the period leading up to and including his time in exile, from 1815 to 1821.


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There are currently 114 names in this directory
Abell
LE, Napoleon and Betsy, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78155-034-2, Fonthill, United Kingdom

Ackroyd
P, The History of England Vol. 1V, Revolution, 2016, ISBN 978-0-230-70642-2, Pan Macmillan, London

Adams
E, Argentina History, 2016, Sonit Education Academy, ISBN 1533671613

J, The South Wales Borderers, 1968, Hamish Hamilton, London

Anon
Memoir of the Affairs of the East India Company, ISBN 978-1511909-46-4, First Rare Publishers

Archer
M, India and British Portraiture, 1979, ISBN 0-85667-054-5, Sotherby Parke, London

Austin
P, 1812 The Great Retreat, 1996, ISBN 1-85367-246-7, Greenhill Books, London

Balcombe
B, Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, 2016, Independent, ISBN 1520103328

Barnes
RM, History of the Regiments & Uniforms of the British Army, 1972, Sphere Books, London

Beattie
J. The first English detectives: The Bow Street Runners & the Policing of London, 2012, ISBN 978-01996-9516-4, OUP, Oxford

Benn
C. The War of 1812, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-466-3, Osprey, Oxford


Blight
G, The History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1953, Staples, St Albans

Borneman
W. 1812 The War that forged a nation, 2004, ISBN 0-06-053112-6, Harper Collins, New York


Boult
T, St Helena – A Maritime History, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4456-5841-4, Amberley Publishing, Stroud

Bourgogne
AJBF, The Retreat from Moscow, 1985, The Folio Society, London


Bowers
P. The Garrett Enigma, 1999, ISBN 1-84037-066-1, Airlife, Shrewsbury


Brooke
TH, A History of the island of St Helena, 1806, ISBN 4-S99000597810-353-2, Pranava Books, India

Brooks
M. Napoleon on St Helena, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78155-171-4, Fonthill


Brown
J. A Socioeconomic history of Argentina 1776-1860, 1979, ISBN 0-521-22219-2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

J. The Countess, Napoleon and St Helena, 2017, ISBN 1521093229, Independent

Bryant
A, Jackets of Green, 1972, ISBN 0-00-211723-1, William Collins, Glasgow

A, The Great Duke, 1971, ISBN 0-0-00-211936-6, William Collins, Glasgow

Campbell-Smith
D. Master of the Post, 2011, ISBN 978-1-846-14324-1, ALLEN Lane, London


Carradice
P, Napoleon in defeat and captivity 1815-1821, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78155-470-8, Fonthill, United Kingdom

Cassidy
M, Marching with Wellington, 2003, ISBN 0-85052-981-6, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Caulaincourt
A, The Retreat from Moscow, Vol. II, 1935, Pickle Partners Publishing, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom

Chaplin
A. Who’s Who at St Helena, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78155-175-2,


Chatterton
E. The Old East Indiamen, 1933, Rich & Cowan, London

E, The World for the Taking: The Ships of the East India Company, 2008, ISBN 13-978-1-934757-43-7, Fireship Press, Tucson USA

Churchill
W. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vols. III & IV, the Age of  Revolution & The Great Democracies  , 1957-158, Cassell & Co., London


Coggershall
G, History of American Privateers, 1856, Cornell University Library, ASIN


Coleman Hall
C, Baltimore – Its History & Its People,2017, ForgottenBooks, ISBN 0265423090


Cooke
GW, The History of Party, Vol !!, 1711-1762, ISBN 978-1275-869592, Sabin Americana, USA

Creighton-Williamson
D, The York & Lancaster Regiment, 1968, Leo Cooper, London

Dempsey
G. Albuera 1811, the bloodiest battle of the Peninsular War,2008, ISBN 978-1-84832-624-8, Pen & Sword,


Divall
C. Inside the Regiment, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84881-453-7, Pen & Sword,


Dorrance
G. & Macartney C. The Bonapartes in America, 1939, Dorrance & Co., USA


Durcy
M. William Wickham, Master Spy, 2009, ISBN 13-978-1-138-66377-0, Routledge,


Dwyer
P. Napoleon, passion, death and resurrection, 978-1-4088-9176-6, Bloomsbury, London


Elliott
J. Empires of the Atlantic World, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11431-1, Yale University Press, New Haven


Evans
EJ, Britain before the Reform Act, 2008, ISBN 978-0-582-29908-5, Pearson Education Harlow

Flanagan
T, The Year of the French, 1979, ISBN 0-03-044591-4, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York

Fletcher
I. The Waters of Oblivion, 2006, ISBN 1-86227-342-1, Spellmount,


Forsyth
W. & Lowe H. History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena, 1853, 978-1342-49408-5John Murray, London


Foss
M, The Royal Fusiliers, 1967, Hamish Hamilton, London

Gahan
D, Rebellion! Ireland in 1798, 1997, ISBN 0-86278-548-0, O’Brien Press, Dublin

Gibney
J Ed., The United Irishmen, 1988, ISBN 9781526751454, Barnsley

Gibson
T, The Wilshire Regiment, 1969, ISBN 85052-007-X, Leo Cooper, London

Giles
F. Napoleon Bonaparte – England’s Prisoner, 2001, ISBN 1-84119-390-9, Constable, London


Glover
R, Peninsular Preparation, 1963, ISBN 978-0-521-08392-8, CUP, Cambridge

Grainger
J. British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805-1807, ISBN 978-1-78346-364-0, Pen & Sword,


Grote
G. The Two Great Retreats of History, 1889, Ginn & Co. Boston


Groves
P. The 66th Berkshire Regiment, 2012, PIBN 1000280667, Forgotten Books


Hayward
P, Surgeon Henry’s Trifles, 1970, SBN 7011-1569-6, Chatto & Windus, London

Hughes
B. The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78159-066-6, Pen & Sword,


Johnson
L. Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires & the Atlantic World, 2011, ISBN 978-0822349815, Duke University Press, North Carolina


Keay
J, The Honourable Company, 1993, Harper Collins, London, ISBN 978-0006380726


Kelly
L, Holland House, 2015, I B Tauris, London, ISBN 978-1-78453-082-2


Kenny
M, The 1798 Rebellion, 1996, ESBN 0-946172-50-1, Country House, Dublin

Knight
R, Britain against Napoleon, XXXX, Penguin Books, London, ASIN BOIK 3JDEC8


Knox
O, Rebels & Informers, 1997. ISBN 0-312-21097-3, St Martin’s Press, New York

Lambert
A. The Challenge – Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812, 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-27319-5, Faber & Faber, London


Latimer
J. 1812 War with America, 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02584-4, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts


Lee
S, British Political History, 1994, ISBN 0-415-09007-5, Routledge, London

Lefkowitz
A. The American Turtle Submarine, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4556-1831-2, Pelican, Louisiana


Lloyd
C. Lord Cochrane, seaman, radical, liberator, 1947, ISBN 0-8050-5569-X, Longman, London


Lynch
J. The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826, 1973, ISBN 0-393-05388-1, WW Norton, New York


Macdougall
P, The Chatham Dockyard Story, 1981, ISBN 0948193-301, Marlborough Books, Rainham, United Kingdom

Maffeo
S. Most Secret & Confidential, Intelligence in the age of Nelson, 2000, ISBN 1-86176-152-X, Chatham, London


Mancke
E. & Shammas C. The Creation of the British Atlantic World, 2005, ISBN 13-978-1-4214-1844-5, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore


Markham
D. Napoleon & Doctor Verling on St Helena, 2005, ISBN 1-84415-250-2, Pen & Sword, Barnsley


Marston
D, The Seven Years War, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84176-191-6, Osprey, Oxford

Martineau
G, Napoleon’s St Helena, 1968, John Murray, London

McIntyre
M. Royal Berkshire Regiment, 2006, ISBN 0-7524-3914-6, Tempus, Stroud


Mclynn
F, 1759, the year that Britain became Master of the World, 2004, ISBN 0-224-06245-x, Jonathan Cape, London

Mellis
JH, St Helena, a physical, historical & topographical description of the Island, 1875, MOD 1002850379, British Library, London

Moir
G, The Suffolk Regiment, 1969, ISBN 85052-006-1 Leo Cooper, London

Myatt
F, The Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1968, Hamish Hamilton, London

Nevill
R, London Clubs, 2015, ISBN 978-1-333-33427-7

Newitt
M. War, Revolution & Society in the Rio de la Plata 1808-1810, 2010, ISBN 978-1-904955-69-6, Signal, Oxford


O’Meara
B, Napoleon in Exile: A Voice form St Helena, 2015, CreateSpace, ISBN 1517624886


Ocampo
E. The Emperor’s Last Campaign, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8173-1646-4, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa


Paget
J, Wellington’s Peninsular War, 1990, ISBN 0-85052-603-5, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Pakenham
T. The Year of Liberty – The great Irish Rebellion of 1788, 1969. SBN 340 10640 9, Hodder & Stoughton, London


Peacock
B, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 1970, ISBN 0-85052-028-2, 1970, Leo Cooper, London

Pemble
J, Britain’s Gurkka Wars, 1971, ISBN 978-184832-520-3,Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Peters
GWH, The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, 1970, ISBN 0-85052-034-7, Leo Cooper, London

Pocock
T. Captain Marryat, 2000, ISBN 1-86176-130-9, Chatham, London

T, The Battle for Empire, The very first world war, 1998. ISBN 1-85479-332-2, Michael O’Mara, London

Prado
F. Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks & Revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata, 2015, ISBN 978-0-520-28515-6, University of California Press, Oakland


Presnail
J, Chatham: The story of a dockyard town, 1962, The Corporation of Chatham, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom

Pringle
P. Hue & Cry – The Birth of the British Police, 1955, Museum Press, London


Richards
DS, The Peninsula Years, 2002, ISBN 0-85052-919-0, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Rivers
Ed., The Redcoats, ISBN 978-81986068987, Amazon, Great Britain

Roberts
A. Napoleon, 2014, ISBN 978-0-670-02532-9, Penguin, New York


Robson
M. Britain, Portugal & South America in the Napoleonic Wars, 2011, ISBN 978-184885-196-2, IB Taurus, London


Selin
S. Napoleon in America, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9921275-0-3, Dry Wall, Vancouver


Senior
E. British Regulars in Montreal, 1981, ISBN 0-7735-0372-2, McGill Press, Montreal


Sheads
S. The Chesapeake Campaigns of 1813-15, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78096-852-0, Osprey, Abingdon


Snow
P. When Britain burned the White House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84854-613-4, John Murray, London


Stanton-Maclay
E, A History of American Privateers, 2012, HandPress Publishing, ISBN 1290321167


Stehr
E. Interesting History of Buenos Aires, emilystehr@hotmail.com, Word origin of Buenos Aires, http://www.disctionary.com/browse/buenos-aires


Stone
D, Cold War Warriors, 1998, ISBN 0-85052-618-3, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Sutton
J, Lords of the East, the East India Company and its ships, 1981, ISBN 0-85177-169-6, Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich

Thomas
D. Cochrane, Britannia’s last sea king, 1980, ISBN 0-352-305-304, WH Allen, London


Thornton
M. Napoleon after Waterloo, 1968, ISBN LC 68-26782, Stanford University Press, Stanford


Uglow
J, In These Times, 2014, ISBN 078-0-571-26952-5, Faber & Faber, London

Unwin
B. The Terrible Exile, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-287-7, Tauris, London


Urban
M. The Man Who Broke Napoleon’s Codes, 2001, ISBN 0-571-20538-0, Faber & Faber, London


Vale
B. Cochrane in the Pacific, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84511=446-6, IB Tauris, London


Watson
GL, A polish Exile with Napoleon, 1912, Little Brown & Co, Boston


Weller
J, Wellington in the Peninsula, 1962, Nicholas Vane, London

Whitehead
A. The Emperor’s Shadow, 2015, ISBN 978-176011-351-3, Allen & Unwin, London


Wilkes
S, Regency Spies, 2015, ISBN 978-1-783340-061-4, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley

Williams
C The Nabobs of Berkshire, 2010, ISBN 978-09566341-15, Goosecroft Publications, Berkshire


Woodard
PH, Guarding the Mails, 2017, Hansebooks, ISBN 978-3337338022


Woodruff
P, The Founders – The men who ruled India, 1953, Jonathan Cape, London

Wykes
A, The Royal Hampshire Regiment, 1968, Hamish Hamilton, London

Zamoyski
A, Napoleon, The Man Behind the Myth, 2018, ISBN 978-0-00-811607-1, William Collins, London

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