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France Under Napoleon by Louis Bergeron Review Bergeron, a distinguished French historian with sympathies for the Annales school, has produced an excellent social history of France in the Napoleonic period.... Highly recommended. Library... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon and Josephine: When Power Met Passion by Evangeline Bruce Synopsis Set against the pomp and splendor of pre-revolutionary France, "Napoleon and Josephine" is an enthralling tale of desire, betrayal, and ambition as it chronicles Napoleon's rise to power and his stormy relationship to Josephine. of photos.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments 'Napoleon Bonaparte\'s character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men--as military... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey Publisher Comments Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments Appearing for the first time in paperback, Frank McLynn's compelling biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, which draws upon recent scholarship to produce a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary military leader, lover and emperor. "A brilliant biography... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom Publisher Comments Chapter One "A Dangerous Islander" "I was born even as my country was perisbing." On December 17, 1778, thirty-two-year-old Carlo Maria (or Charles, as he now called himself) Buonaparte boarded a coastal vessel in the Corsican port of Ajaccio. At his... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon and the Hundred Days by Stephen Coote Publisher Comments In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after defeating Napoleon, the news arrived that Napoleon had escaped captivity and was returning to France. Bonaparte-the revolutionary turned emperor... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Age of Napoleon (04 Edition) by Horne Publisher Comments The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time. Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller) by Johannes Willms Publisher Comments St Helena is one of the most remote, and yet most famous, islands in the world—it was the final place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte until his death in 1821. The island remains a place of mystery as a unique colonial survivor, with the island... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Fall of Napoleon, Volume I: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814 (Cambridge Military Histories) by Michael Leggiere Publisher Comments Crushing defeats in Russia (1812) and Germany (1813) caused the collapse of Napoleon’s empire and brought his enemies to the Rhine River at the close of 1813. With a depleted and exhausted army, Napoleon attempted to direct the defense of his... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments “Europe is a molehill….” Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.” Napoleon Napoleons invasion of Egypt was the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Napoleon: Life, Legacy, and Image: A Biography by Alan Forrest Publisher Comments From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Age of Napoleon Publisher Comments Called an outstanding work of popular history by The New York Times, this book is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality, as well as the portrait of an entire age. The author explores relevant political, cultural, military, commercial... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial façade. To her subjects, she appeared to vet hew... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations. Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon by Roger Dufraisse Publisher Comments This brief political biography is by one of the foremost practitioners of First Empire studies (specializing in social and economic history). This book is designed to provide general readers with a brief overview of a complex man that leans more toward... (read more) List Price $21.88 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon by Timoth Wilson Smith Publisher Comments This new biography will chart Napoleon's life, from Corsican boy-soldier to Emperor of the French and master of Europe.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Assassination at St. Helena Revisited by Ben Weider Publisher Comments Assassination at St. Helena Revisited Was Napoleon murdered? This baffling question has been sparking hot debates for nearly two hundred years. But, according to Swedish toxicologist Sten Forshufvud and Napoleonic scholar Ben Weider, the answer is an... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.48 Used - Hardcover
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Napoleon and Marie Louise: The Emperor's Second Wife by Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher Comments "Archduchesses have always been disastrous for France," Napoleon once remarked. Yet in 1810 he married Archduchess Marie Louise, the eighteen-year-old daughter of his lifelong enemy, the Emperor of Austria. On January 5, 1810, she had read in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography by Renee Winegarten Publisher Comments When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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