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5 de dic. de 2014 · A Life. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 926 pp. $45. 'Ah, if it were only to be done over again!" sighed Napoleon Bonaparte about the Battle of Waterloo as he sailed into exile and imprisonment. He ...
6 de may. de 2021 · From Napoleon's first garden as a schoolboy to his last, on St. Helena, Ruth Scurr takes us on a journey filled with unexpected new vistas on a familiar life. Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural world. The result is a refreshing, engaging read -- Victoria Johnson, Pulitzer Prize ...
- Ruth Scurr
1 de ene. de 2003 · 554 ratings61 reviews. One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family's sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart expertly re-creates Josephine's whirlwind of ...
9 de jul. de 2022 · Napoleon was elected First Consul of France for life in 1802. In December 1804 he crowned himself emperor of the French at Notre-Dame cathedral. The coronation brought the 1st Republic to an end. France was now under a military despotism presided over by an absolute monarch. His court was re-established in the Tuileries.
"Napoleon remade France and much of Europe in his fifteen years in power and proved himself one of history's greatest military commanders. Roberts's access to Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, only recently available, allowed him to create a fully human portrait of this larger-than-life figure."--The Wall Street Journal, Holiday Gift Guide
- Andrew Roberts
16 de oct. de 2018 · View Kindle Edition. 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.
18 de sept. de 2007 · The Corsican; a diary of Napoleon's life in his own words.. by Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920.
