Napoleon : a life / Andrew Roberts.

By: Roberts, Andrew, 1963- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Viking, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xli, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670025329Subject(s): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Emperors -- France -- Biography | France -- History -- 1789-1815 | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Emperors | France | Napoléon I. Frankreich, Kaiser, 1769-1821 | 1789-1815Genre/Form: History | Biography.DDC classification: 944.05092 | B LOC classification: DC203 | .R678 2014
Contents:
Rise. Corsica ; Revolution ; Desire ; Italy ; Victory ; Peace ; Egypt ; Acre ; Brumaire -- Mastery. Consul ; Marengo ; Lawgiver ; Plots ; Amiens ; Coronation ; Austerlitz ; Jena ; Blockades ; Tilsit ; Iberia ; Wagram ; Zenith -- Denouement. Russia ; Trapped ; Retreat ; Resilience ; Leipzig ; Defiance ; Elba ; Waterloo ; St Helena.
Summary: " ... The first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 859-888) and index.

Introduction -- Rise. Corsica ; Revolution ; Desire ; Italy ; Victory ; Peace ; Egypt ; Acre ; Brumaire -- Mastery. Consul ; Marengo ; Lawgiver ; Plots ; Amiens ; Coronation ; Austerlitz ; Jena ; Blockades ; Tilsit ; Iberia ; Wagram ; Zenith -- Denouement. Russia ; Trapped ; Retreat ; Resilience ; Leipzig ; Defiance ; Elba ; Waterloo ; St Helena.

" ... The first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation"--Jacket.

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