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Across Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Napoleonic Wars, Western, and 19th Century — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Waterloo 1815 (2) Ligny by John Franklin.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Waterloo 1815 (1) Quatre Bras

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Themes: Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) • Napoleonic Wars • Western

Waterloo The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • Western • 19th Century

Prelude to Waterloo Quatre Bras : the French Perspective

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • Western • 19th Century

Waterloo 1815

Gregory Fremont-Barnes

Themes: Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) • Napoleonic Wars • Western

King Leopold’s Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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Themes: Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) • Western • 19th Century

Napoleon The Visionary Conqueror

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

Berezina 1812 Napoleon’s Hollow Victory

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

Inside Wellington’s Peninsular Army: 1808-1814

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

The Invisible Emperor Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

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Albuera 1811 The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#11

Voices from the Past Waterloo 1815

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#12

Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798 – 1805

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#13

Military Dispatches

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Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#14

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun

Lisa Jardine

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • Western • Wars & Conflicts

#15

The Napoleonic Wars A Global History

Alexander Mikaberidze

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#16

Napoleon’s Wars An International History, 1803-1815

Charles Esdaile

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#17

So Just and Glorious a Cause Britain and the Liberation of Portugal – Rolica and Vimeiro, 1808

Robert Griffith

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#18

Napoleon on War

Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#19

Wellington’s Command A Reappraisal of His Generalship in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

George E. Jaycock

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#20

1809 Thunder on the Danube Volume 3: Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs: Wagram and Znaim

John H. Gill

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#21

The Iron Marshal A Biography of Louis N. Davout

John G. Gallaher

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#22

The Battle of Maida 1806 Fifteen Minutes of Glory

Richard Hopton

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#23

Napoleon’s Infantry Handbook

Terry Crowdy

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

#24

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor of the French

Sir Walter Scott

Themes: Napoleonic Wars • 19th Century • Wars & Conflicts

If Waterloo 1815 (2) Ligny by John Franklin is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Napoleonic Wars, Western and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by John Franklin, Bernard Cornwell, Andrew W. Field, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, and others.