Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York: Random House, 2016).
R. R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution, with a foreword by Isser Woloch (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton Classics/Princeton U. Press, 2005).
Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (New York: Viking, 2014) (an enjoyable read).
