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001 2014486027
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020 $a9781846140273 (hardback)
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100 1 $aRoberts, Andrew,$d1963-$eauthor.
240 10 $aNapoleon
245 10 $aNapoleon the Great /$cAndrew Roberts.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bAllen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,$c2014.
300 $axxxiii, 936 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c25 cm
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500 $aPublished in the U.S. under title: Napoleon.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 869-888) and index.
505 0 $aPart One: Rise -- 1. Corsica -- 2. Revolution -- 3. Desire -- 4. Italy -- 5. Victory -- 6. Peace -- 7. Egypt -- 8. Acre -- 9. Brumaire -- Part Two: Mastery -- 10. Consul -- 11. Marengo -- 12. Lawgiver -- 13. Plots -- 14. Amiens -- 15. Coronation -- 16. Austerlitz -- 17. Jena -- 18. Blockades -- 19. Tilsit -- 20. Iberia -- 21. Wagram -- 22. Zenith -- Part Three: Denouement -- 23. Russia -- 24. Trapped -- 25. Retreat -- 26. Resilience -- 27. Leipzig -- 28. Defiance -- 29. Elba -- 30. Waterloo -- 31. St Helena -- Conclusion.
520 $a"It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler. This is the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime activity produced countless indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint for civil law systems still in use around the world today. It is one of the greatest lives in world history, which here has found its ideal biographer. The sheer enjoyment which this book will give anyone who loves history is enormous."--Provided by publisher.
520 $aFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts.
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856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014486027-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014486027-b.html