Napoleon a life
" ... the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation"--Jacket.
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New York, New York :
Viking,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- The Bonaparte Family Trees
- Introduction
- Part 1. Rise
- 1. Corsica
- 2. Revolution
- 3. Desire
- 4. Italy
- 5. Victory
- 6. Peace
- 7. Egypt
- 8. Acre
- 9. Brumaire
- Part 2. 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 3. Denouement
- 23. Russia
- 24. Trapped
- 25. Retreat
- 26. Resilience
- 27. Leipzig
- 28. Defiance
- 29. Elba
- 30. Waterloo
- 31. St Helena
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
