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Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator ...
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936 ...
Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 ...
In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to ...
Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be ...
There had grown up a sort of intimacy between occupant and occupU . . . a peculiar blending of mutual loathing and mutual respect, a pas de deux ...
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders ...
'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times
Francis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably ...
This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the ...
Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to life, from his dangerous ...
This work is far more than an eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is one of the foremost conservative British political thinkers: in his ...
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