Fremont-Barnes G. Napoleon Bonaparte

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 68 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84603-458-9.Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Throughout the first decade of the 19th century he won battle after battle by wielding the Grande Arme'e decisively against the other powers of Europe – Prussia, Austria and Russia. Yet his fortunes changed in 1812 when the invasion of Russia wrecked his forces, and Napoleon suffered his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815.The early years
The military life
The hour of destiny
Opposing commanders
Inside the mind
When war is done
A life in words
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