"Memoirs"

" Narrower and narrower would her bed be. The candle was half burnt down and she had read deep in Baron Marbot's Memoirs" (Woolf, 31).

Baron Marbot's Memoirs tells of a soldier in the Napoleon war. Mrs. Dalloway was set in a time period directly following WW1. Clarissa read this book to not only explore her mortality, but to better connect her to Septimus Smith, the other character who tells this story. Septimus Smith is ill because of the war that he recently fought in, and by Clarissa studying war, the two characters are put at a parallel.

Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Baron-Marbot-Lieutenant-General-Napoleonic/dp/1853670146