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(written in French) No subject is ever completely exhausted in History and Waterloo, perhaps less than others: how many single battles can claim to symbolize the fall of an empire?In extracting this event from the mystique that has surrounded it for two hundred years this book by Thierry Lentz comes at precisely the right moment. On […]

“This is the story of the towering ambition of a man willing to impoverish his people in pursuit of personal glory. From the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 to his defeat on the battlefield of Waterloo three years later, Napoleon's fall has a certain inevitability about it. Writing in a clear, non-technical way, and […]

from the publishers: “Feared and hated by the crowned heads of Europe, the brilliant Corsican, who rose from daring young general to Emperor of the French, found himself desperately in love with a beautiful and promiscuous Creole woman. Cynical at first, she came to adore him, as he adored her. Set against a sweeping background […]

From the Publishers:“After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody battle in a blizzard at Eylau on 8 February 1807, which decimated both armies. Operations resumed in the spring and on 14 June […]

[From the introduction] “The work [of Napoleon] is first and foremost the history of France, despite the fact that it resounds throughout the whole of Europe and that the man himself has touches of the universal. This situation, furthermore, is one of the reasons why Napoleon is never complete in any of his portraits. Indeed, […]