A Gift Of Napoleon

Author : Claude-François baron de Méneval
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon, an Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy, 1800-1814 written by Claude-François baron de Méneval and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions of original letters covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover, and imperial head of state.

Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783781238
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend Of Napoleon written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonizing and horrifying death. The Emperor's real legacy is the modernizing and beautifying of Paris, the official promotion of religious tolerance, the current French legal and educational systems, and the European Union, to name but a few Napoleonic initiatives. And of course, the legend lives on. Drawing on new archival research, Hazareesingh traces not only the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and how it developed into a potent political culture, but also the amazing tenacity of popular affection for the Emperor, manifest in countless busts and portraits in ordinary citizens' homes, grass-roots political activism, miraculous apparitions reported after his death and the memories kept alive by thousands of imperial war veterans. This book is a timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries.

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Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
ISBN 13 : 9674310746
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte written by and published by Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his army into many victorious battles. This is the story of how a lawyer's son rose to become a powerful emperor.

Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541644557
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon written by Adam Zamoyski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.

Author : H. E Marshall
Publisher : Fv Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Napoleon written by H. E Marshall and published by Fv Editions. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Story of Napoleon," H.E Marshall provides a narrative account of the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most influential figures in European history. The book is written in a straightforward and engaging style, making it suitable for young readers and those interested in a concise overview of Napoleon's life and impact on the world. The biography covers Napoleon's early life, rise to power, military campaigns, and his eventual downfall. It also touches on the broader historical context of the time, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, which reshaped the political landscape of Europe. This new edition is illustrated with beautiful classic paintings and comes with an easy to read layout designed to make reading comfortable.

Author : Stuart Semmel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9780300090017
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon and the British written by Stuart Semmel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Napoleon Bonaparte mean to the British people? This engaging book reconstructs the role that the French leader played in the British political, cultural, and religious imagination in the early nineteenth century. Denounced by many as a tyrant or monster, Napoleon nevertheless had sympathizers in Britain. Stuart Semmel explores the ways in which the British used Napoleon to think about their own history, identity, and destiny. Many attacked Napoleon but worried that the British national character might not be adequate to the task of defeating him. Others, radicals and reformers, used Napoleon's example to criticize the British constitution. Semmel mines a wide array of sources--ranging from political pamphlets and astrological almanacs to sonnets by canonical Romantic poets--to reveal surprising corners of late Hanoverian politics and culture.

Author : Georges Poisson
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1929631677
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Gift to France written by Georges Poisson and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery of the Nazi occupation of France is at last explained by new research.

Author : David A. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190262737
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon: A Concise Biography written by David A. Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. Then everything collapsed, leading him to spend his last years in miserable exile in the South Atlantic. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued, and his success in mobilizing human and material resources. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.

Author : Michael Broers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777258
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon written by Michael Broers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like volume one of Michael Broers’s magnificent biography, The Spirit of the Age is based on the new version of Napoleon’s correspondence, made available by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris. It is the story of Napoleon’s conquest of Europe—and that of his magnificent Grande Armée—as they sweep through the length and breadth of Europe. This narrative opens with Napoleon’s as yet untested army making its way through the Bavarian Alps in the early winter of 1805 to fall upon the unsuspecting Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. This was only the beginning of a series of spectacular victories over the Prussians and Russians over the next two years. The chronicle then follows the army into Spain, in 1808, the most ill-considered step in Napoleon’s career as ruler, and then through the most daunting triumph of all, the final defeat of Austria at Wagram, in 1809, the bloodiest battle in European history up to that time.

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312121228
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution written by Martyn Lyons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the impact of the Napoleonic era on France and Europe. It interprets the period in the context of the legacy of the French Revolution, and examines the social forces on which Napoleonic power was based. Original documents give a fresh and unusual perspective on social and political trends.