Best books about the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon?

[dratsab]

I'd be interested if anyone had any recommendations. Also, if you want to include any other superb history books on other topics, I'd be fine with that as well. I'm really trying to improve on my knowledge of history.

[ennison]

The field is bursting at the seams. (Mixed metaphor I know) I would recommend Carlyle but he is not to everyone's taste. Dickens used him though as background for A Tale of Two Cities. When I was young I read various books by Rude on the period and I voraciously read the memoirs of British soldiers partly because I am descended from a family called Na Saighdearan. There was one I read many many years ago called Napoleon: For and Against which gave snapshots of Napoleon's decisions and behaviour. "Citizens" is a book you might enjoy.

[dratsab]

The field is bursting at the seams. (Mixed metaphor I know) I would recommend Carlyle but he is not to everyone's taste. Dickens used him though as background for A Tale of Two Cities. When I was young I read various books by Rude on the period and I voraciously read the memoirs of British soldiers partly because I am descended from a family called Na Saighdearan. There was one I read many many years ago called Napoleon: For and Against which gave snapshots of Napoleon's decisions and behaviour. "Citizens" is a book you might enjoy.

Alright, thanks pallio.

[ajvenigalla]

One book I am reading is Robert Palmer's Age of the democratic Revolution, but it's 2 volumes and covers more than the French Revolution

[Vota]

You might check out The Campaigns of Napoloeon by David G. chandler.

[RetsixArp]

Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815, by George Rude. Assigned for my course in French Revolution, back in 1971. Chapters on Napoleon very incisive.