Books
27 Best Novels About the Hundred Days and the War of the Seventh Coalition
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War
Hundred Days / War of the Seventh Coalition
1815 CE
Hundred Days / War of the Seventh Coalition sits within the wider Napoleonic Era and helps explain why the period generated so many different kinds of historical fiction. In simple terms, it was not only a military contest but also a struggle over territory, alliances, legitimacy, trade, occupation, and national survival. Its events shaped the lives of soldiers and civilians far beyond the immediate battlefield.
The Hundred Days and War of the Seventh Coalition give historical fiction a final Napoleonic setting of return from exile, political gamble, rapid mobilisation, Waterloo, and final defeat. The war connects individual campaigns and battles into a wider pattern of military pressure, political uncertainty, and social disruption. Common story material includes command pressure, divided loyalties, supply problems, family separation, political uncertainty, battlefield experience, and the way large strategic decisions disrupt ordinary lives.
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 Hundred Days / War of the Seventh Coalition
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 Hundred Days and the War of the Seventh Coalition
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.