Napoleon Bonaparte : a life

Schom, Alan, author.

Book 1997

Schom's one-volume life of Napoleon includes all facets of Napoleon's incredible career, from his childhood in Corsica to his death in exile on the island of St. Helena. It follows his many military campaigns and describes the great battles he won and lost from northern Italy to Egypt, Spain, Prussia, Austria, Poland, and Russia, to his final defeat at Waterloo. It illuminates his extensive political and structural reorganization of the French go...

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ISBN:

9780060172145
0060172142

Edition:

1st edition

Description:

xxii, 888 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

"A dangerous islander"
"To destiny"
"A new Alexander the Great"
Crossroads
The decision
The Armada
Land of the Pharaohs
Deep water
In the shadow of defeat
Tivoli and beyond
Road to Damascus
Prelude to a coup
18-19 Brumaire
The Consulate
The Foreign Minister
Fouche's police
Fouche the man
The Christmas Eve plot and others
"The revolution is over"
War once again
The Coronation
"A humiliating business"
Intermezzo a la Bonaparte
It all began with Austerlitz
The marches of empire
Point of no return
Iberia
Another grave error
Another Danube Campaign
Wagram
The last rose of summer
Chimes and alarm bells
Russia
Malet's Malaise
Death march
The Saxon Campaign
Leipzig
"The Cossacks are coming!"
"Projects of troubles and upsettings"
"To conquer or perish"
Final casualties. MAPS: Europe in 1789, before Napoleon; and in 1814, before his defeat at Waterloo
The invasion of Italy, 1796-1797
The Campaign in Egypt and Syria, 1798-1799
The Battle of Abukir Bay, August 1, 1798
The Marengo Campaign, May-June 1800
The Ulm and Austerlitz Campaigns, December 1805
The Battle of Austerlitz, December 2, 1805
Napoleon's Campaign in Germany, Fall 1806
The Battles of Jena and Auerstadt, Oct. 14, 1806
Napoleon's Campaign in Prussia and Poland, 1806-1807 (the Battles of Eylau, February 1807, and Friedland, June 1807)
The Campaign in Spain, 1808-1814
Napoleon's Danube Campaign, 1809
The Battles of Aspern-Essling, May 21-22, and Wagram, July 5-6, 1809
Napoleon's Russian Campaign, June
Sept. 1812
The Battle of Borodino, Sept. 7, 1812
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Oct. 1812
Jan. 1813
Napoleon's Saxon Campaign, April-June 1813
The Battle of Leipzig, October 16, 1813
Prelude to Waterloo, June 14, 1815
The Battle of Waterloo, June 16-18, 1815

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97005805

Control Number:

67908

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