Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
9 best books like Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (Adam Zamoyski): The Federalist Papers, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, The Last of the Mohicans, The Social Contract, Napoleon: A Life, A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889, Talleyrand, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
| Author | Alexander Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0451528816 |
Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written", The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public...
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 0140317201 |
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending!
Two clans of robbers, enemies for as long as the two chiefs Mattis and Borka can remember, share a forest and a castle split in two by a giant lightning, and a common enemy in the knights of the crown. Bad-mannered, ill-tempered, violent and boastful,...
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
| Author | Multatuli |
| ISBN | 0140445161 |
Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in...
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0553213296 |
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0143037498 |
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for...
| Author | Andrew Roberts |
| ISBN | 0670025321 |
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest...
On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.
Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling...
| Author | Duff Cooper |
| ISBN | 0802137679 |
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's...
| Author | Dominic Lieven |
| ISBN | 0713996374 |
Tho much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia & the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Lieven upends much of the conventional...
