The History Journals, 2019. — 63 p. Do you want to learn more about the great military leader Napoleon Bonaparte, but don’t have time to read huge, long biographies? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of his life. Since the beginning of time there have always been leaders to emerge from the masses, and a few rise to such prominence, that long after...
Quercus, 2011. — 403 p. 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 from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead Emperor's corpse from the Island of St Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would...
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...
Pocket, 1998. — 394 p. — ISBN: 2266080555 Le Napoléon de Max Gallo est à la fois une savante biographie historique et un palpitant roman d'aventures. Pouvait-il en être autrement alors que l'empereur lui-même s'exclamait "Quel roman que ma vie !" ? Le récit captivant raconte en quatre tomes une destinée exceptionnelle : le lecteur est de toutes les batailles, de toutes les...
Pocket, 1998. — 321 p. — ISBN: 2266080563 Ce roman commence au printemps 1779, lorsqu'un enfant de dix ans à l'accent étranger, maigre et mal peigné, entre à l'école militaire de Brienne. Quinze ans plus tard, cet enfant entre dans la légende. Bonaparte est nommé général en chef des armées d'Italie par le Directoire. La suite, c'est Vendémiaire, Lodi, Arcole, la campagne...
Pocket, 2006. — 402 p. — ISBN: 2266166964 En 1809, après Austerlitz, Iéna, Wagram, il est le Maître. L'homme à la redingote grise soumet les rois et conquiert les femmes. Il a fait roi d'Espagne son frère Joseph et baptisé roi de Rome le fils que lui donne l'Autrichienne Marie-Louise. Il commande à la moitié de l'Europe, défie le pape lui-même à propos du Blocus continental....
Pocket, 2015. — 388 p. — ISBN: 2266260707 En 1812, il entre en Russie à la tête de cinq cent mille hommes. Un océan de feu détruit Moscou. Un chaos de glace et de neige engloutit la Grande Armée. Pour la première fois, l'Aigle baisse la tête. Dès lors, l'Europe conquise se réveille et se venge. Les puissants le trahissent, sa vieille garde pleure à Fontainebleau. Le retour de...
Arms and Armour Press: 1997, - 264 p. One of the most colorful armies in the history of warfare.Gathered here are 162 full-color pictures, many never seen before, with an introductory text and extensive caption by Dempsey.As these prints were rendered from original water colors commissioned by Martinet during the period, they are an important primary source for the historian,...
An expert examination of the first campaigns of a military genius. Gustav Fiebeger has approached his analysis of General Bonaparte's campaign of 1796-7 in Italy against Austrian and Sardinian forces on several levels. His book concentrates on delivering as much information as possible in the fewest words, so this a work of little literary style. Nevertheless, few relevant...
Editors. — Editions Atlas, 2002. — 402 p. — French. C'est en effet l'un des plus grands génies militaires de l'histoire de France que ce magnifique ouvrage se propose de vous faire découvrir ou redécouvrir. Les principales étapes de la vie de cet homme d'exception sont retracées, de son enfance en Corse à sa mort à Sainte-Hélène. On apprend comment il devint un militaire de...
Routledge, 2011. — 616 p. — ISBN10: 0415610095 ISBN13: 9780415610094. Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, Napoleon has divided opinion for over 200 years. Few individuals have left such a mark on history. Georges Lefebvre's classic work, published in Routledge Classics in one paperback volume in English for the first time, is a definitive portrait of the...
Brill, 2016. — 556 p. In "Napoleon and the Operational Art of War", the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon's development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major campaign of a war. To achieve...
Pimlico, 1998. — 767 p. — ISBN: 0712662472. Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling new biography Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men - as military leader, lover and emperor. Tracing Napoleon s extraordinary career, Mc Lynn examines...
St.Louis: Forum Press, 1978. — 112 p. These excerpts concentrate on four much debated historical questions about Napoleon Bonaparte. Firstly did he consolidate or destroy the French Revolution? Secondly was he an aggressor whose ambition for territory knew no bounds or was he the guardian of the national frontiers of France who was compelled into war by foreign intererence?...
Plon, 2012. — 680 p. Napoléon est le personnage le plus admiré et le plus haï de notre histoire. Il est le fondateur de nos institutions et le synonyme de gloire militaire, mais on lui reproche les morts de la Grande Armée et le rétablissement de l'esclavage dans nos colonies. On peut toutefois évoquer Napoléon avec admiration sans dissimuler ses erreurs et ses faiblesses. Par...
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