Author : Philip Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 113463837X
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period was the defining moment for modern European history. Using primary texts, this volume explains the upheavals, terror, and drama that restructured politics and society on such a large scale.
Author : J. M. Thompson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1444659758
This vintage book comprises a fascinating collection of Bonaparte's letters; selected, translated, and edited by J. M. Thompson. This anthology forms one of the most truthful and interesting collections of historical documents pertaining to the famous French military and political leader - Napoleon Bonaparte. It offers the reader an interesting and unparalleled insight into his mind and personal life in 292 letters. The letters contained herein include: 'The Brothers', 'His Father's Death', 'The Corsican's Patriot', 'History of Corsica', 'Brothers Louis', 'The Young Jacobin', 'Paris in Revolution', 'Heroics', 'Brother's Joseph', 'Paris Life', 'Fatalism', 'Whiff of Grape-Shot', 'First Night', 'Separation', etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1910
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1892
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1541644557
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 :
Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9674310746
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.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : France
ISBN : 9780271040134
[This book] gives readers [an] introduction to the French Revolution that is also grounded in the latest ... scholarship ... The book presents a succinct narrative of the Revolution.-Back cover. [In this book, the authors] follow a wide range of events, including the social and cultural events as well as the military and political ones. Women's history and gender relations ... have been integrated into the general story.-Pref.
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780670025329
"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.
Author : Laura Mason
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : France
ISBN :
presented alongside those of sans-culottes; the histories of women, peasants, and the free blacks and slaves of Saint Domingue are represented, as are the testimonies of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike. Documents range from political pamphlets, decrees by legislative bodies, and police reports to popular petitions from the countryside and popular literature from the period. Short narrative histories ... provid[e] students with a context in which to evaluate the documents. [This book is
