Emperors
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Donald Robertson
The Black Prism
Brent Weeks
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Imperial purple
Edgar Saltus
Augustus
Anthony Everitt
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
Hirohito and the making of modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
The Blinding Knife
Brent Weeks
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
The Tyrant's Tomb
Rick Riordan
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński
Chronicle of the Roman emperors
Christopher Scarre
Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie
The last Tsar
Edvard Radzinsky
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
A life of Napoleon
Stendhal
Marcus Aurelius
Anthony Richard Birley
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
Frank McLynn
Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina [Penguin Books no.421]
Robert Graves
The last days of the Romanovs
Helen Rappaport
The Roman emperors
Michael Grant
History of Nero
Jacob Abbott
Caligula
Barrett, Anthony
Genghis Khan
Jacob Abbott
The history of Napoleon Bonaparte
John S. C. Abbott
The Campaigns of Napoleon
David Chandler
Hadrian
Stewart Perowne
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
Trajan
Julian Bennett
The annals of Tacitus.
P. Cornelius Tacitus
Napoleon
Frank McLynn
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Peter Kingsley
Napoleon, from 18 Brumaire to Tilsit, 1799-1807
Georges Lefebvre
The Blood Mirror
Brent Weeks
The Yamato dynasty
Sterling Seagrave
Augustus
John Williams
Caligula
Aloys Winterling
Augustus
John Buchan
Le Malentendu
Albert Camus
