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Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-03 - Publisher: Granta Books
'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonizing and
Language: en
Pages: 638
Pages: 638
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-16 - Publisher: Basic Books
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a po
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: LSU Press
With a penetrating eye and a deep and spiritual intelligence, Betty Adcock writes poems that range from elegy to dark humor as they confront both loss and possi
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-26 - Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
NAPOLEON—SOLDIER, EMPEROR, LOVER... This magnificent reconstruction of Napoleon’s life and legend is written by a distinguished Oxford scholar. It is based
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Kent State University Press
This work is an examination of the tomb of Napoleon - its construction process, historical context, and political and social meanings. It documents the problems
