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Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV I

Summary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Tolstoy, Leo

Summary: "At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books 2016

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Summary: In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: In the year 1810 Napoleon is determined to conquer Portugal. But Captain Richard Sharpe leads the French directly into the Duke of Wellington's devastating defenses at Torres Vedras, where one of the great battles of the Napoleonic wars erupts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COR

Cornwell, Bernard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COR

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION Cornwell

Garwood, Haley Elizabeth.

Summary: This is a tale of a warrior, Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueeror.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Block 1998

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GARWO

Summary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATED

Cornwell, Bernard.

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Summary: Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001

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Pope, Dudley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POP

Woodman, Richard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1987

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Cornwell, Bernard

Summary: "If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Cornwell, Bernard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Pope, Dudley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: House of Stratus 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POP

Cornwell, Bernard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COR

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: "Follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne" -- from publisher's web site.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

O'Brian, Patrick

Summary: Stephen Maturin tries to turn Napoleon's secret link to the Islamic world against the emperor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: His voyage home should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001

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Woodman, Richard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin.  He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once.  Now, he's getting a second chance. 

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987

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Graham, Winston

Summary: The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2008

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Rambaud, Patrick.

Summary: "Captures the brutality and heroism of one of the great conflicts of the nineteenth century: the Battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat on land." -- Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAM

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