Title: Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign. With comments.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: boo[...]
This rich sampling of the knowledge and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders not only provides a fascinating glimpse of the French leader's intellectual ability for conducting military operations, but also reveals his thoughts, theories, and commentaries on waging war and the art [...]
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) is best remembered for establishing the First French Empire, declaring himself Emperor of the French in 1804. His military campaigns across Europe sparked the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and profoundly shaped European political and economic activities during the early [...]
The text (with the exception of a few bracketed passages) is derived entirely from Napoleon's own words, written and spoken. What truth this book conveys is not to be sought according to those rules for the treatment of historical documents which it avowedly contravenes, but in such psychological il[...]
The product of more than ten years of exhaustive research, a unique, single-volume biography by a historian and scholar traces Napoleon's spectacular rise and fall, his campaigns of conquest, his reorganization of France's government, and his personal life. Reprint. NYT. LJ.[...]
The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Empire and the 'liberal' of the Hundred Days. The emphasis here will be on Napoleon as the heir and ex[...]
"Robert Asprey's biography bids fair to become the standard work in English on the most prominent avatar of the 'great man' theory of history."--Boston Globe. Robert Asprey completes his definitive, two-volume biography with an intimate, fast-paced look at Napoleon's daring reign and tragic demise[...]
Robert Asprey charts Napoleon's thrilling, reckless rise to power in this fast-paced first volume of the definitive biography of the fascinating, enigmatic, and still mysterious tragic conqueror.. Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napol[...]
Published in 1860, this vivid first-hand account provides important insight into Napoleon's ignominious retreat from Russia.[...]
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... Acre again assaulted, but repulsed. brought him the head of an enemy; his[...]