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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For years, critics have celebrated best-selling author Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures for their magnificent blend of swashbuckling excitement and historical accuracy. With The Hundred Days, he transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world. While Napoleon pursues the British across Europe, rumors fly about him forging a secret link with the forces...
3) Napoleon
Author
Publisher
J. Messner
Pub. Date
[1954]
Physical Desc
189 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Frenchman whose empire dominated all of Europe in 1812, until his retreat from Moscow began his downfall.
5) My Napoleon
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young English girl describes her friendship with Napoleon when, after his defeat at Waterloo, he comes to live in her family's house on the island of St. Helena.
7) Napoleon
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and whose empire covered most of western and central Europe.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War and the first one-volume 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.
10) Napoleon
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1964, c1963]
Physical Desc
292 p.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, born a Creole on the island of Martinique in the French West Indies, became one of the best known and most envied women who ever lived. Sent to France to make an advantageous marriage to a young aristocrat, her naiveté and lack of education left her ill prepared to deal with the sophisticated, if decadent, world of pre-Revolutionary Paris. Treated cruelly by her shallow young husband, her life had become a nightmare...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 206 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his surrender to the Royal Navy, Napoleon became the object of massive English public interest. He would live out his last years on the island of St. Helena without ever admitting to being a prisoner. This close study of Napoleon in captivity attempts to reconstruct an authentic portrait of the fallen emperor by examining contemporary documents and records of public opinion. Napoleon worked hard to obfuscate his history of tyranny with a legend...
18) Napoleon's exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
1st Grove Press ed.
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1814, and Napoleon Bonaparte retreats to Paris following the debacle of his Russian invasion. Once there, the leader is met with more resistance-a plot to restore a royal to the throne of France succeeds and a humiliated Napoleon is forced to abdicate and go into exile. Octave Senecal, Napoleon's loyal aide and savior, tells the tale of their journey south through the angry, mob-filled countryside to Elba, a tiny island off the coast of Tuscany....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this alternate history, Napoleon wins at Waterloo by unleashing a secret battlefield weapon--a legion of giant, carnivorous dinosaurs imported from the wilds of the Americas--and only fifteen-year-old Willem Verheyen stands in the way of the emperor's plan for world domination.
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