Napoleon: A Biography

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'A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon.' Lawrence James, The Times Napoleon Bonaparte's ch ...

The legend in the making: Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole, ...

Devious, manipulative, pessimistic: Madame Mere (Maria Letizia Bonaparte) The acme of lubricious beauty: Pauline Bonaparte ...

Joseph, Napoleon's 'complex' elder brother Lucien, the enemy within Louis, the reluctant accomplice Jerome, Napoleon's 'Benjamin ...

The Christ-like Bonaparte heals the sick at Jaffa in this hagiographic srudy by Gros (Opposite page) Marengo, 1800: the first of ...

Josephine Beauharnais, Creole beauty and Empress A second Hannibal but without the elephant: Napoleon crosses the Alps by mule ...

Austerlitz: Napoleon's finest hour ...

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The invasion scare, 1803-04: an early vision of the Channel Tunnel ' The First Consul becomes Emperor: Napoleon's coronation, De ...

Napoleon at his apogee: the imperial apotheosis as seen by Ingres ...

Fouche: Bernadotte: the avatar of treachery and duplicity Gascon windbag and mortal enemy Murat: Talleyrand: a man of great cour ...

Alexander I of Russia: he wanted to be Napoleon Marie Walewska: the only woman who truly loved him Eylau, 1807: the bloo ...

apoleon as political simpleton: the marriage of Marie-Louise The descent into barbarism: the first of the Spanish atrocities as ...

The killing fields of Russia: Borodino, August^1812 The decline and fall of the Grand Armee: the retreat from Moscow ...

Backs to the wall: the fighting retreat through northern France, 1814 f • ' .. � ·. ·-.... -::.. 't'.. ''• The grognards: ...

Hand-to-hand combat at LaHaye Sainte: Waterloo, 18 June 1815 The charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo ...

I I � The end of a dream: Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 1814 ...

PIMLICO 325 NAPOLEON Frank McLynn was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and the University of London. He was Alistair Horne Re ...

NAPOLEON A Biography FRANK McLYNN PIMLICO ...