Books
24 Best Novels About the Waterloo Campaign
Bestselling authors first, then star rating.
Phase
Waterloo Campaign
1815-06
Waterloo Campaign was a campaign phase within Hundred Days / War of the Seventh Coalition, and it works best as a contextual bridge between the wider war and individual actions. It explains the movement, pressure, or strategic problem that brought armies, fleets, commanders, and civilians into a particular sequence of events. The wider campaign context explains why several battles or incidents belong together rather than appearing as isolated episodes.
For historical fiction, The Waterloo Campaign gives fiction a concentrated final setting of rapid movement, divided allied armies, battlefield uncertainty, and the end of Napoleon’s military career. This phase is especially useful for fiction about a retreat, occupation, invasion, naval operation, or extended campaign rather than one named battle. It gives the setting enough shape without needing a detailed military-history treatment.
Specific fiction connections include Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe series, especially its Waterloo sequence, and Allan Mallinson’s Matthew Hervey series, which begins in the aftermath of the campaign. Georgette Heyer’s An Infamous Army, Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma, and Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables also make the Hundred Days useful for fiction about panic, reputation, defeat, and memory.
Related people for Waterloo Campaign
Alexander I of Russia1777–1825 André Masséna1758–1817 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 George III1738–1820 George IV of the United Kingdom1762–1830 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Jean-de-Dieu Soult1769–1851 Jean Maximilien Lamarque1770–1832 Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith1798–1872 Louis-Philippe I1773–1850 Louis XVIII of France1755–1824 Louis XVI of France1754–1793 Marie Antoinette1755–1793 Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794 Michel Ney1769–1815 Napoleon1769–1821 Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet1787–1860 William II of the Netherlands1792–1849 William Pitt the Younger1759–1806
Non Fiction
1 Non-Fiction Book About the Waterloo Campaign
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.